| Description | File of press cuttings from national and international newspapers containing articles relating to racism and anti-racist protests in the United States of America, Paris, South Africa, Denmark and Germany during the 1960s. The file includes a copy of 'Challenge - the revolutionary newspaper', published in the United States of America, 1968, and containing articles on student action and strikes in Paris, and Black Power activism in the US after the death of Malcolm X. Other articles cover black education and workers struggles. The publication is printed in both English and Spanish, with some different articles in the Spanish version.
Other articles cover: the boycott of South African sports fixtures; protests in Birmingham against visiting South African politicians; accusations that Britain is selling out its African territories to the white regime in South Africa 1966; South Africa allowing mixed heritage sports teams to tour there; an 'opinion' column written by Nelson Mandela in the 'Observer' 1964; report on the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, the South African prime minister; racial tension in Denmark between 'skinheads' and foreign workers 1969; prejudice against dark-skinned people in India and several African countries; the activities of neo-Nazis in Germany; American attitudes towards Jewish people.
The file also includes an article containing an account of life in and after Buchenwald by a prisoner who had been a member of the French Resistance. |