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Soweto Uprising, June 21, 1976
Video thumbnail image shows Black South African schoolchildren standing behind a fence.
A protest sign reading To Hell with Afrikaans is displayed behind glass at the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, with visitors reflected in the surface. Two Soweto youths kneel on grass with their hands raised in peace signs facing a police officer by a vehicle, with a large crowd watching in the background. Entrance to the Hector Pieterson memorial in Soweto, South Africa, with a red stone wall inscribed to honor youth and a famous black-and-white protest photograph in the background.
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Soweto Uprising, June 21, 1976
South African rioters using cars as roadblocks during an uprising in Soweto, South...
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1976 Soweto Uprising
A protest sign proclaiming “To Hell with Afrikaans” that was used during the Soweto...
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1976 Soweto Uprising
Soweto youths kneeling in front of the police, holding their hands in the air while...
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Hector Pieterson Museum, Soweto, South Africa
Entrance to the Hector Pieterson Museum, two blocks from where Pieterson was shot...
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