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Author Downing, David, 1946-

Title Apartheid in South Africa / David Downing.

Publication Info. Chicago : Heinemann Library, [2004]
©2004
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1015865~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Juvenile Nonfiction  J 968.063 DOW    AVAILABLE
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Description 56 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm
Series Witness to history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-54) and index.
Contents How do we know? -- South Africa to 1910 -- Discrimination -- Early opposition to white rule -- South Africa adopts apartheid -- How apartheid worked -- For Europeans only -- Resistance grows -- Sharpeville -- A change of tactics -- South Africa isolated -- Life for whites -- Life for nonwhites -- The Bantustans -- Soweto -- The terrorist state -- Pressure from inside -- Pressure from outside -- First cracks -- The end of apartheid -- Reconciliation -- Today and the future -- What have we learned from apartheid?
Summary Examines the historical forces that led to the development of the system of apartheid, what life was like under the system for both blacks and whites, and the efforts that caused the end of this system.
Subject Apartheid -- South Africa -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa -- History -- Juvenile literature.
South Africa -- Race relations -- History -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 1403448701
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