South African Youth Day--Organization, Discipline, Action, for power and peace June 16 marks the anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, when in 1976 South African high school students organized a series of protests in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools. An estimated 20,000 students took part in the protests, and the number of people who died as a result of clashes with police is usually given as between 176 to about 700.
![From the Union of South Africa to the United States of America. Fight for Liberation and Revolution. The people of Southern Africa are standing up. From Azania to Namibia to Zimbabwe, imperialism and oppression are being met head on by resistance and struggle. White minority rule is on the way out. It is not bowing out gracefully... ‘From the Union of South Africa to the United States of America - Fight For Liberation And Revolution’, Revolutionary Workers Headquarters, Chicago, [1978]. Union Of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Civil Rights, Oppression, Armed Forces, Revolutionaries, Southern](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/5f/e3/5e/5fe35ed44f8661f22795fec5f4b3383e--union-of-south-africa-apartheid.jpg)
![Biko and Solidarity [Click on this image to find a short video and analysis of the conditions of apartheid in South Africa and why that system of oppression is comparable to Jim Crow segregation in the U.S.] "Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road toward emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being." ~ Steve Biko Photo credit: STF / AFP / Getty Images New Africa, The Journey Book, History Online, Jim Crow, Freedom Fighters](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/d8/12/7d/d8127d8ad4b1bbea53ddf1f25ff63c7a--apartheid-in-south-africa-steve-biko.jpg)
![Biko Family Defiant [Click on this image to find a short video and analysis of the conditions of apartheid in South Africa and why that system of oppression is comparable to Jim Crow segregation in the U.S.] Ntsiki Biko, widow of South African political detainee Steve Biko, defiantly gives the Black Power salute with her children Samora (left) aged two, and Nkosinathi aged six, in front of their home at King William’s Town, South Africa..." Photo credit: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Black History Facts, Black History Month, Angela Davis, Victor Hugo, Black Power Salute, Black Panther Party, Power To The People](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/f8/ce/f7/f8cef73d7d36f4e12c9972a815742249--steve-biko-black-pride.jpg)
