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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.