c. 1968
Black Consciousness movement emerges
Black Consciousness organisations began promoting psychological liberation, student activism and independent Black political organisation.
established
social-movement
organisation-formation
Black Consciousness organisations began promoting psychological liberation, student activism and independent Black political organisation.
Significance
Opened a new generation of anti-apartheid mobilisation that reshaped resistance politics in the 1970s.
Why it matters
Opened a new generation of anti-apartheid mobilisation that reshaped resistance politics in the 1970s.