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[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/resistance-to-white-supremacy/ by DISSENT 1995] | [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/resistance-to-white-supremacy/ by DISSENT 1995] | ||
During the 1950s and early 1960s, nonviolent protesters challenged legalized racial segregation and discrimination in the only two places on earth where such blatant manifestations of white supremacy could be found—the southern United States and the Union of South Africa. Comparing these movements gives us a better perspective on the recent history of black liberation struggles in the two societies. | During the 1950s and early 1960s, nonviolent protesters challenged legalized racial segregation and discrimination in the only two places on earth where such blatant manifestations of white supremacy could be found—the southern United States and the Union of South Africa. Comparing these movements gives us a better perspective on the recent history of black liberation struggles in the two societies. | ||
=====China: Release Advocates of Nonviolence===== | |||
[https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/06/16/china-release-advocates-nonviolence by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 16/6/15] | |||
(New York) – The Chinese government should immediately release human rights activists Tang Jingling, Yuan Xinting, and Wang Qingying and drop all charges against them, Human Rights Watch said today. The three will be tried for allegedly “inciting subversion,” which can carry sentences of up to 15 years in prison, on June 19, 2015, by the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court. | |||
