Sharpeville Massacre

Elizabeth Robey

10 November 2022

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The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960 when police officers in a black township in South Africa opened fire on a group of people peacefully protesting oppressive pass laws, killing 69.

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Circular letter from American Committee on Africa to W. E. B. Du Bois

University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1960 English

This date is inferred. Signed John Gunther and Rt. Rev. James A. Pike; emphatically denouncing the recent Sharpeville Massacre and seeking readers' support of efforts to aid its victims and …

Sharpeville Massacre

Villon Films · 1960 English

16mm footage of The Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960 at the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South …

Sharpeville 21 March 1960

DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1960 English

Article regarding the Sharpeville 21 March 1960. 5 000 people gathered at the Sharpeville police station near Johannesburg to start the Pan Africanist Congress campaign as a result 69 people …