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New York City Police Officers look on as protests are under way against racism and police violence after the death of George Floyd.
Protests first erupted on 25 May, after video footage went viral on social media of a white police officer in the city of Minneapolis, United States, kneeling on the neck of African American George Floyd, for more than eight minutes, causing his death while in police custody. His death set off a nationwide outcry over racial inequality and police brutality, that have inspired protests in solidarity and against racism all over the world.

Protests are under way in New York City against racism and police violence after the death of George Floyd.
Protests first erupted on 25 May, after video footage went viral on social media of a white police officer in the city of Minneapolis, United States, kneeling on the neck of African American George Floyd, for more than eight minutes, causing his death while in police custody. His death set off a nationwide outcry over racial inequality and police brutality, that have inspired protests in solidarity and against racism all over the world.

An outdoor adult literacy class at the village of Pizonou, near Po. Since 1967, the government of Upper Volta has been implementing, jointly with the UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), an experimental project for the social and economic promotion of woman and girls in rural areas. [1976]

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Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress of South Africa, raises his fist in the air while addressing the Special Committee Against Apartheid in the General Assembly Hall.

Apartheid consists of hundreds of laws that allow the ruling white minority in South Africa to segregate, exploit and terrorize the vast majority: Africans, mostly, but also Asians and Coloureds - people of mixed race. Under Apartheid, racist beliefs are enshrined in law and any criticism of the law is cruelly suppressed.
A beach at Durban reserved for the whites.

Student demonstrators being whipped by a policeman wielding a "sjambok" in South Africa. 1987.

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Headline Apartheid: The Tyranny of Racism Made Law

Caption Description In white-ruled South Africa, black people are denied their basic human and political rights; their labour is exploited, their lives segregated, precarious and fearful. In 1982 almost one million of them were to be transfered to another country - Swaziland - without their having any say in the matter whatsoever. That is the tyranny of apartheid, of racism made law, of a system under which a small white minority holds all economic and political power, and dictates in the minutest detail how and where the large black majority will live, work and die. It is this system of institutionalized racial discrimination which defies the principles of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that has set South Africa on a collision course with the rest of the world. It must be brought to an end before it erupts into a racial war between "whites" and "blacks" that would have tragic consequences for the whole world.
Tourists at the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria. The long and bloody struggle for power in South Africa could be longer and bloodier yet, if the present white minority persists in its refusal to share political and economic rights with the black majority. [Exact date unknown]

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Production Date 01/01/1982 2:49:10 PM

City/Location Pretoria

Country South Africa

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