2026 Ugandan protests
Wikipedia Current Events →Protests erupt in Uganda amid political tensions, with demonstrators taking to the streets against the government.
PROTESTS GO ON DESPITE ARRESTS
Negroes campaigning for equal treatment at Southern lunch counters are being jailed by the dozens, but there is no sign of a letup in the drive. Authorities arrested 154 demonstrators yesterday. All were jailed for a time, then released on bond. Meanwhile, the movement spread to two new cities: Miami, Fla. and Houston, Tex. Eight Negro clergymen in Miami made two attempts to crack the color barrier, in a department store and at a variety store lunch counter. Both failed. Up to 100 Negroes, identified by a spokesman as students of Texas Southern University, staged an orderly sitdown in Houston after waitresses refused to serve them at a supermarket lunch counter. Nearly 1,000 wildly cheering Negro students roared approval of plans for a mass strike at Alabama State College in Montgomery when spring quarter registration begins Monday. Seventy-four Negroes were arrested in South Carolina. Twenty-six Negro students of Morris College were jailed when they sat down at lunch counters in three Sumter stores. They were released on $500 bond each. 48 Released on Bond At Florence, 48 young Negroes were arrested when they returned for a second lunch counter demonstration at a variety store in less than 80 minutes. They were jailed briefly, then let out on $500 bond each. State charges carrying possible penalties of nearly a year in jail and a $1,000 fine were brought against 80 college stu
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Unlawful Organizations Act, 1960
The Unlawful Organizations Act No 34 of 1960 (commenced 7 April 1960) allowed the apartheid government of South Africa to declare unlawful any organizations deemed to threaten public order or the safety of the public. This legislation was enacted within a few weeks of 1960's Sharpeville Massacre. The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and African National Congress (ANC) were immediately declared unlawful.
Wikipedia →Soweto uprising
The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots or the Soweto rebellion, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. Students from various schools began to protest in the streets of the Soweto township in response to the introduction of Afrikaans, considered by many black South Africans as the 'language of the oppressor', as the medium of instruction in black schools. They were met with fierce police brutality, and many were killed.
Wikipedia →1994 South African general election
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