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Defiance Campaign
The protests were largely non-violent on the parts of the participants, many of whom wore tri-color armbands signifying the ANC. https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/defiance-campaign-1952 -
Start of apartheid
The Great Depression and World War II brought increasing economic woes to South Africa, and convinced the government to strengthen its policies of racial segregation. https://www.history.com/topics/africa/apartheid -
Freedom of black Africans
The South African government officially launches the system of apartheid, severely restricting the freedom of Black Africans. https://web.stanford.edu/~jbaugh/saw/Ajani_Apartheid.html -
First black legal law firm in South Africa
Mandela and Tambo was a South African law firm established by Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo in Johannesburg. It was the first "Attorney Firm" in the country to be run by black partners. https://www.huseby.com/blog/2013/nelson-mandela-had-early-career-in-law-was-founder-of-south-africas-first-black-law-firm -
Mascara in Sharpeville
Afrikaner police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 people and wounding 180 in a hail of submachine-gun fire. The demonstrators were protesting against the South African government’s restriction of nonwhite travel. https://web.stanford.edu/~jbaugh/saw/Ajani_Apartheid.html -
Nelson Madela in prison
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for attempting to overthrow South Africa’s apartheid rule. He was Imprisoned for 27 years and was in jail for the first 18 years. https://www.ool.co.uk/blog/imprisonment-nelson-mandela -
South Africa suspended
South Africa was suspended from the General Assembly. After decades of strikes, sanctions and increasingly violent demonstrations, many apartheid laws were repealed by 1990.
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End of apartheid
After 27 years in prison Nelson Mandela was freed and negotiated the end of apartheid in South Africa bringing peace to a racially divided country and leading the fight for human rights around the world. https://www.history.com/topics/africa/apartheid-video
