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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Description

1. 48 audiocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 48 sound recordings, primarily of interviews with activists within the movement, as well as recordings of various public events, celebrations, and speeches.

Subject

1. White people > South Africa > Attitudes
2. Black people > Political activity > South Africa
3. Video recordings
4. Sound recordings
5. South Africa > Politics and government
6. Labor unions > South Africa
7. Anti-apartheid movements
8. National liberation movements > South Africa
9. Black nationalism > South Africa
10. Black Consciousness Movement of Azania
11. Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa
12. Biko, Steve, 1946-1977

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.
2. Video recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS South Africa 1991-62

Note

1. The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a grassroots anti-apartheid movement that emerged in South Africa in the late 1960s led by Steve Biko (1946-1977), an anti-apartheid student activist. Following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, the government banned the country's two oldest Black organizations, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). In their absence, the BCM emerged on university campuses across the country. Black students and youth revived the anti-apartheid struggle by emphasizing self-reliance, mass mobilization, and cultural awareness. After the Soweto Uprising in 1976, the government arrested, tortured, and killed many of the BCM's leaders, including Biko, who died from a brain hemorrhage after police shackled and beat him. At that time, the BCM included more than twenty mass organizations, eighteen of which were banned the following year by the South African regime, driving many members into exile.

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Division for the South Africa Black Consciousness Movement collection (Sc MG 440). Posters can be found in the Art and Artifacts Division. Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo South Africa Black Consciousness Movement Collection).

Author

1. Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa, creator.

Title

1. South Africa Black Consciousness Movement audio collection.

Publisher

1. [1991]

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Division for the South Africa Black Consciousness Movement collection (Sc MG 440). Posters can be found in the Art and Artifacts Division. Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo South Africa Black Consciousness Movement Collection).

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1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS South Africa 1991-62