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Additional authors

1. Mosala, Itumeleng J. (Itumeleng Jerry)
2. Mabasa, Lybon.
3. Mkhabela, Ishmael.
4. Slate, Michael.
5. Azanian People's Organization.
6. Black Consciousness Movement of Azania.
7. New Unity Movement (South Africa)
8. Zimbabwe International Book Fair.

Description

1. 0.4 lin. ft. (One box)

Summary

1. The South Africa Black Consciousness Movement Collection consists primarily of interviews, speeches, organizational materials and printed matter documenting the politics and activities of Black Consciousness organizations in and outside of South Africa from 1983 to 1991. It comprises interviews and speeches by BCM leaders Itumeleng J. Mosala, Ishmael Mkhabela and Lybon Mabasa; interviews with black South African exiles, and anti-apartheid activists within South Africa; leaflets, declarations and factsheets of the Azanian People's Organization and the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCM (A)); miscellaneous files on the New Unity Movement, the Pan Africanist Congress and other non BCM organizations; and subject files on churches, trade-unions, white organizations inside South Africa, and the State of Emergency declared by the South African government in 1985. An organization file for Indaba, a Durban-based experiment in power-sharing, and a collection of essays entitled "War Stories" by an independent American journalist, Michael Slate, are also included.

Subject

1. White people > South Africa > Attitudes
2. Black people > Political activity > South Africa
3. South Africa > Politics and government
4. Biko, Steve, 1946-1977
5. Interviews
6. Azanian People's Organization
7. Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa
8. Black author
9. Leaflets
10. Anti-apartheid movements
11. Black nationalism > South Africa
12. Speeches
13. Black Consciousness Movement of Azania
14. National liberation movements > South Africa
15. Labor unions > South Africa

Genre/Form

1. Leaflets.
2. Interviews.
3. Speeches.

Call number

1. Sc MG 440

Note

1. Posters, sound recordings and photographs have been transferred respectively to the Art and Artifacts, Moving Images and Recorded Sound, and the Photographs and Prints divisions.

Biography (note)

1. The Black Consciousness Movement emerged as a political trend in South Africa in the late 1960s, in the decade after the banning of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress by the South African regime. The collection documents a primarily youth-based radical critique of the apartheid system, of the ANC's Freedom Charter and its moderate leadership in negotiating a transition to white rule in South Africa.

Author

1. Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa.

Title

1. South Africa Black Consciousness Movement collection, 1983-1993.

Biography

1. The Black Consciousness Movement emerged as a political trend in South Africa in the late 1960s, in the decade after the banning of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress by the South African regime. The collection documents a primarily youth-based radical critique of the apartheid system, of the ANC's Freedom Charter and its moderate leadership in negotiating a transition to white rule in South Africa.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Mosala, Itumeleng J. (Itumeleng Jerry)
2. Mabasa, Lybon.
3. Mkhabela, Ishmael.
4. Slate, Michael.
5. Azanian People's Organization.
6. Black Consciousness Movement of Azania.
7. New Unity Movement (South Africa)
8. Zimbabwe International Book Fair.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 440