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Publication of Cry, Beloved Country
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Bantu Authorities Act is Established
Bantu Authorities Act established a basis for ethnic government in African reserves, known as ``homelands.'' -
Emmett Till is Murdered in Chicago
Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman -
Sharpeville blacks refuse to carry their passes
In 1960, a large group of blacks in Sharpeville refused to carry their passes; the government declared a state of emergency. The emergency lasted for 156 days, leaving 69 people dead and 187 people wounded. -
Major race riots take place in Newark (July 12–16)
Race Riots take place in Newark -
State of Emergency was discontinued
anyone could be detained without a hearing by a low-level police official for up to six months. -
Emmett Till Case is Reopened and then Closed
Emmett Till's 1955 murder case, reopened by the Department of Justice in 2004, is officially closed. The two confessed murderers, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were dead of cancer by 1994, and prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to pursue further convictions.