apartheid
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"Apartheid defined me, that is true... But I am proud of the work that came out of it, that carries my name," Fugard told the AFP news agency in 1995.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025
According to a news release from Pomona Divest Apartheid, “the 18+ students sitting in Starr’s office were barricaded in by Campus Safety Officers, who positioned themselves in front of the exits.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
It included a trip to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and a visit to Freedom Park, an open-air museum in Pretoria, which traces South Africa’s history of oppression.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2023
Who thought Apartheid in South Africa would end with Nelson Mandela becoming President, except for a few people?
From Salon • Aug. 11, 2023
Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton’s book, American Apartheid, documents how racially segregated ghettos were deliberately created by federal policy, not impersonal market forces or private housing choices.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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