Invictus
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It is the late 1940s in South Africa. New laws, impacting racial segregation, herald an ominous future for people of color who live at the southern tip of the African continent. Over the coming decades, the plight of black South Africans will worsen. Although they are the majority in their country, they have no say in government because they cannot vote in national elections. How can they be masters of their fate when they are not even allowed to live where they wish? When people were crowded into sub-standard housing, in the Johannesburg area of Sowetto (standing for "South Western Townships"), racial tensions began to flare. Nelson Mandela, a lawyer and anti-apartheid leader, also had a home in Sowetto. He would rise to become the leader of his nation - South Africa - but it would take years before that happened. Image of Sowetto homes by Matt-80, online via Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY-2.0
Original Release Date: December, 2009 To cite this story, using MLA Guidelines: Bos, Carole D. "Invictus" AwesomeStories.com. Date of access IN OTHER WORDS: Author. Title of story. Name of web site. Date of access <URL>.
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
Philosophy
- Bagger Vance and and the Bhagavad Gita
- Bonhoeffer: Martyr of Faith
- C.S. Lewis
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Easter Story
- Freedom of Religion