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21 Mar 1960 — South African police fire on a crowd protesting the pass laws, killing 69, most shot in the back. The ANC and PAC are banned and turn to armed struggle; the world can no longer quite look away. Remember them.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — Apartheid’s Long Fall in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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