Witness History: Black history

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October 05, 2013 Soweto Uprising
The Soweto uprising shook the Apartheid regime in South Africa to its core. But it all began with a demonstration by schoolchildren against having to learn Afrikaans at school.
Alan Johnston has been talking to one of the schoolgirls who led the march on 16 June 1976.
Picture: Students protest in Soweto against the introduction of Afrikaans in schools, Credit: BBC/Clarity Films/Peter Magubane
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October 05, 2013 Albert Luthuli Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
When Chief Albert Luthuli won the Nobel Peace Prize he was living under a banning order in rural South Africa. His daughter Albertina talks to Witness. Also listen to archive recordings of his acceptance speech.
He won the prize for advocating peaceful opposition to the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
Picture: Albert Luthuli receives the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960, Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive
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October 04, 2013 Nelson Mandela's Autobiography
*** This programme was first broadcast on 25 October, 2011 ***
In the mid 1970s Nelson Mandela began writing his autobiography in prison, on Robben Island.
Mac Maharaj was one of the prisoners who helped edit and conceal the manuscript.
Photo: Associated Press, Nelson Mandela before he was imprisoned.
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October 04, 2013 ANC Bomb
The armed wing of the ANC party took its first violent action in 1961, when a bomb was planted at municipal offices in Durban.
Ronnie Kasrils explained what happened that day.
(Image: Ronnie Kasrils in 1961. Credit: Ronnie Kasrils)
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October 04, 2013 The Death of Steve Biko
The anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, died in a police cell in 1977. The South African police claimed he'd gone on hunger strike and had starved himself to death, but he had only been in prison a matter of days.
Helen Zille was the journalist who helped uncover the truth of his death - that he had in fact died of a brain hemorrhage due to head injuries. The report she published in the Rand Daily Mail showed that the govenment had lied.
(Image: Members of the Socialist Party of Azania (SOPA) hold a candle light memorial ceremony to mark the death anniversary of the anti-apartheid activist and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement Steve Bantu Biko. Credit: RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/GettyImages)
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October 04, 2013 The Rivonia Trial
*** This programme was first broadcast on 10 February, 2010 ***
Ahmed Kathrada was one of the ANC activists jailed alongside Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Treason trial in South Africa in 1964. He tells Witness the story of his interrogation and trial.
(Image: Prison van with Rivonia trial prisoners 16 June 1964, Credit: AFP/Getty)
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October 04, 2013 Surviving Robben Island
*** This programme was first broadcast on 11 February, 2010 ***
When Nelson Mandela and his fellow ANC activists were imprisoned on Robben Island in 1964, South Africa's apartheid regime distinguished between races even in jail. Ahmed Kathrada was the one Asian prisoner to be jailed alongside him. He tells Witness his story.
(Image: Prison corridor on Robben Island, Credit: BBC)
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10min
October 03, 2013 Petula Clark touches Harry Belafonte's arm
In 1968, when Petula Clark touched Harry Belafonte's arm during a duet, it was the first time a white woman had touched a black man on US television.
The sponsor insisted it be cut from the programme, but the programme makers refused.
Louise Hidalgo speaks to the producer of the programme, Steve Binder.
(Photo: Harry Belafonte. Credit: Alan Meek/Express/Getty Images)
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10min
October 03, 2013 John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin, a white journalist, dyed his skin black to experience segregation in America's Deep South. John Howard Griffin wrote a book about his seven week experience.
*** Listeners should be aware that some of the language in this programme reflects the historical context of the time. ***
Photo: Griffin as a black man in 1959 (left). Courtesy of John Howard Griffin Estate.
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9min
October 02, 2013 Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl
In 1974 American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time. We hear how Beverly Johnson made it to the front of the world's most famous fashion magazine.
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