Stephen Biko A Force of Change in the Struggle Against Apartheid

Activist Steve Biko's speech links white racism to the Black Consciousness movement, calling on black South Africans to create their own ... As a civil rights activist in the 1960s and 1970s, South African Steve Biko is considered the father of black consciousness. Steve Biko, the 30-year-old leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa died while in police hands. South African anti-apartheid activist (1946–1977) The name Stephen Bantu Biko still resonates globally! But the man and his ground-breaking ideas had humble beginnings in the Eastern Cape ... Biko, Steve ( Stephen) (1946–77) South African political activist. In 1969 Biko founded the South African Students Organization. In 1972 he co-founded the Black ... He talked about reclaiming blackness, but also put thought into how we as black people in South Africa should relate to coloureds and Indians as ... Bantu Stephen Biko's death on I2 September I977 was greeted with outrage by not only his fellow blacks in South Africa and elsewhere, but by men of goodwill ... The activist had died in South African police custody. He was buried on September 25 1977. Bantu Stephen Biko, that country's most important Black leader, stepped forward to testify on their behalf and thus broke the ban on his public speaking.