TY - BOOK ID - 78069994 TI - Sharpeville : an apartheid massacre and its consequences PY - 2011 SN - 1283348489 9786613348487 0191617342 9780191617348 0192801856 9780192801852 019161999X PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sharpeville Massacre, Sharpeville, South Africa, 1960. KW - Massacres KW - South Africa KW - Race relations. KW - Politics and government KW - Race question UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78069994 AB - On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black andwhite in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movemen ER -