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He was a South African activist and and President that helped bring an end to Apartheid. He was also a member of the African National Congress.
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This was series of events that was aiming to be free of British rule. This was a non violent attempt for the first independence movement. -
Gandhi was the leader of this movement and was trying to keep it non violent. India was aiming to be their own independent state away from the British ruling.
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This was the timespan of how long this was taking action. The leader, Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian politician.
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This was segregation laws against colored people in South Africa. Many people were sent to labor camps and made to carry around passes. -
This was the year the National Party decided to create these laws. This era of Apartheid forced removals, labor, and loss of basic rights for the colored.
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The leader Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He helped the color community gain back their independence in a non violent way.
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this was a large removal of the colored people and was mandated segregation. More than 860,000 people were forced to live in very tough conditions.
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This is also known as the Mau Mau Uprising. This was a war in the British Kenya Colony between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army. -
These pass laws were rules that the colored people had to carry around to get their rights. This includes finding jobs and cheap African labor.
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The Cuban Revolution was a military and political effort to overthrow the government of Cuba. They wanted their independence and freedom. -
This was the non violent way of going against the pass laws. There were many boycotts, protests, and strikes. Many of these people participating were arrested after the actions.
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This was a group of rebels that went against and attacked other forces. They wanted independence and freedom.
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It began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which placed Fulgencio Batista as head of state and the failed mass strike in opposition that followed. Ernesto "Che " Guevara was a Cuban revolutionary.
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This was a war that led to independence for Algeria from France. It was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare and war crimes. -
The Algerian War was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France.
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Were among the vibrant multi-racial communities that were destroyed by government bulldozers when these areas were declared “white.” They were removed from these distant towns and forced to move.
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This was a march led by women to eliminate the pass laws. They marched all the way over to the Prime Minister to give them a petition against the laws.
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National Liberation Movement was a political party created in Ghana. They were also trying to gain their own independence from the British. 1957 they gained this independence. -
Which abolished indirect representation of blacks in Pretoria and divided Africans into ten ethnically discrete groups, each assigned a traditional “homeland.”
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Congo gained it's independence in July of 1960. The leader Patrice Lumumba was then arrested and assassinated. -
The Sharpeville Massacre was one of the more violent effects the pass laws had on people. There are many passes burned at the police station where 69 people were killed.
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The Cambodian Civil War was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the Communist Party of Kampuchea against the government of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
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In Cape Town, many informal settlements were destroyed. In one incident over four days in 1985, Africans resisted being moved from Crossroads to the new government-run Khayelitsha township farther away; 18 people were killed and 230 were injured.
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The Iranian Revolution, or the Islamic Revolution, refers to a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.