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Publication of Cry of the Beloved Country
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Executive Order 9981
President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948, ending segregation in the military. Read about its origins. -
Racial Classifucation
In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially classified into one of three categories: white, black (African), or colored (of mixed decent). -
Race in the Goverment
In 1951, the Bantu Authorities Act established a basis for ethnic government in African reserves, known as ``homelands.'' These homelands were independent states to which each African was assigned by the government according to the record of origin. -
Brown vs The bored of Education
In the case of Brown vs bore of education they found the segragation is unconsitusal -
Rosa Parks
Rosea Parks refused to give up her set on a public bus and got arrested that set of many people to start working for a change -
Pass Laws
March 1960 police fired upon a crowd protesting against the pass laws in Sharpeville, killing at least 69 people and injuring many others. -
The Rise of Black Consciousness
The earliest challenges to apartheid came from a new generation of black youth who came of age in the 1960s. Inspired by leaders such as Bantu Stephen Biko, they gave voice to a philosophy of black psychological emancipation, black pride and black self-assertion. -
MLK I have a Dream
His most famous speech was given this year on of the most famous and influencel speeches ever -
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
He was responding to white clergy who had published a statement in the Birmingham News, criticizing King and other civil rights activists for their impatience. -
New Constitution
Between 1994 and 1996 South Africa's first fully democratic parliament, sitting as the Constitutional Assembly, drew up South Africa's new constitution. It contains guarantees of equality more extensive than anywhere else in the world.
