Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shaking his head at his own experience in the U.S. Marine Corps when troops were segregated, Dinkins proceeded to condemn the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the "deranged" Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis), South African apartheid and violent repression in several African and Asian nations...
Despite such criticisms of the University,Mandela displayed appreciation for theanti-apartheid activism that dominated Harvard'scampus in the 1980s...
Mandela, the current president of South Africa, who spent 27 years in jail for fighting against the government-imposed apartheid laws that deprived black citizens of their rights, received an honorary doctorate of law from Harvard at a rare ceremony conducted Friday afternoon...
Growing up, I never really understood apartheid. All that I knew was that it was a system that kept white people in power and black people in jail. I knew that it involved disenfranchisement and loss of civil and political rights. I knew that black people were beaten and sometimes killed, but as to any sort of legal or conceptual understanding, I was completely lost...
...black people in the South in the 1960s, they are doing to black people over there." I was told that in order to support our African brethren, we should boycott companies that invested in South Africa and send letters to the South African Embassy demanding the end of apartheid. I heard unfamiliar words used as rallying cries and the names of F.W. DeKlerk and Nelson Mandela thrown around by politicians and activists like Randall Robinson and C. Payne Lucas of Africare...