BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT OF AZANIA - BLACK OPPRESSION IN S. AFRICA 1977 RARE For Sale
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BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT OF AZANIA - BLACK OPPRESSION IN S. AFRICA 1977 RARE:
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We are offering the RARE booklet Black Consciousness Movement of Azania. "One Azania One Nation" Our Urgent Tasks. The Immediate Tasks of the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania. (External Wing). Printed and Published by the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, 410 Central Park West, Apt. 12-D, New York, New York. Circa 1977. (5 1/4" x 8"; 15 pages).First the booklet gives the historical background of the movement, an institution of many loosely organized groups, which were established in the 1960s after a decade of massive political persecution and oppression during the reign of terror under Apartheid. The goals of the movement were to emancipate the black population from white domination, to liquidate white privilege and to launch a new society based upon the will and the power of the people. By the mid-1970s these Black Consciousness organizations presented a major challenge and a threat to white power, and as a result, the oppressors responded with intensified measures of repression unleashing an unprecedented reign of terror with an astonishing spectacle of brutal persecutions and torture, mass imprisonment and banishments -including the atrocious police murder of Steve Biko, the Honorable President of the Black People's Convention. A direct quote from the booklet is "Steve Biko had devoted his entire life to teaching all black people, young and old, to stand tall and never submit to degradation of any form. For that he laid down his life". What we have written in this paragraph covers only some of the historical background of the movement that was in the first 4 pages. There is so much information packed into this little booklet, we could never possibly touch on it.
In 1976 these separate "Black Consciousness" groups were combined together as The Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, under which a multitude of organizations were created - workers' committees and trade unions; residents' and civic associations; professional associations; and farmers' and traders' associations - whose mission was to address every aspect of exploitation and repression. The Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, which had operations outside of Africa, felt obligated to create a people's army and to do everything in its power to secure facilities abroad for the military training of its cadres. The booklet ends with 8 Declarations of the Principles of the Movement, stating their present and future goals. **NOTE** - please check out the bookletBlack Women in South Africa and the Case of Winnie Mandela that we have on at the present time.
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