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Women and black consciousness 1950s-1970s​

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A movement of grassroots started anti-Apartheid activist

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The Black Consciousness Movement was a movement of grassroots anti-Apartheid activist that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s. This movement was created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the happening of Sharpeville Massacre in the year 1960. Stephen Bantu Biko who was a student who started this movement. The main purpose of Black Consciousness Movement was to increase Black self-awareness and in order to unite Black students, professionals, and intellectuals.

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