The birth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa

Origin date: July 1989
Updated: 27 Aug 2019

The birth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa

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One day in July 1968 a group of students formed a separate caucus at the annual conference of the University Christian Movement being held outside Stutterheim in the Cape Province. Within ten years most of the students from that meeting were either in exile, banned or jailed.The most important person participating in that first meeting was Steve Biko. Nine years later he died in a South African jail.

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South African History Online. (2016, February 22). The birth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa . South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111317

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