Pan-African Congress

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politics Bessie Head
BH found that Cape Coloured people were far more politically aware than those in Durban, conscious of and increasingly resistant to being subject as a group to discriminatory laws. They also had an internal class...
Travel Maya Angelou
Her next travel, in very different style, was to London with Vusumzi Make when he attended a Pan-African Congress meeting there.
Angelou, Maya. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou. Random House, 2004.
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Timeline

15-21 October 1945: The fifth Pan-African Congress, held in Manchester,...

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15-21 October 1945

The fifth Pan-African Congress , held in Manchester, UK, marked the beginning of the end of colonial rule in Africa and the Caribbean.
Andrews, Kehinde. “Spirit of the Pan–African Congress should be revived”. Guardian Weekly, 23 Oct. 2015, p. 8.

21 March 1960: Sixty-seven black demonstrators were killed...

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21 March 1960

Sixty-seven black demonstrators were killed when South African police fired into an unarmed Pan-African demonstration against pass laws in the Transvaal; this event became known as the Sharpeville Massacre.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
259
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
672
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
416
Slovo, Gillian. Ties of Blood. Michael Joseph, 1989.
275, 278-82

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