Supplemental Materials

Freedom in Our Lifetime: South Africa's Struggle

Freedom in Our Lifetime: South Africa's Struggle explores the history of South Africa and the development of a race-based society, the effects of apartheid on individuals and society, and the decision by some members of the anti-apartheid community to use violence to oppose the government's policies.

Web Links

Animated Atlas of African History
This interactive web atlas chronicles the course of colonization and decolonization, and post-colonial developments in Africa between 1879 and 2002. Economic and demographic changes are also covered.

The African National Congress
This site provides archival documents, photographs, chronologies, and historical analyses.

The Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
This site provides transcripts of TRC testimony and amnesty decisions as well as links to other helpful sites.

The Robben Island Museum
This site provides oral histories, music, documents, photography, film, and historical papers.

Books

Bonner, Philip, Peter Delius and Deborah Posel, editors. Apartheid's Genesis, 1935-1962 (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2001). 455 pages.

Carter, Gwendolen and Karis, Thomas, editors. From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964 (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1977). Volume III: 825 pages.

Davies, Rob; O'Meara, Dan; Dlamini, Sipho. The Struggle for South Africa: A Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations and Institutions, vols I & II (London: Zed Books Ltd., 1984). 440 pages.

Feit, Edward. Urban Revolt in South Africa, 1960-1964 (Northwestern University Press, 1971). 356 pages.

Frankel, Philip. An Ordinary Atrocity: Sharpeville and its Massacre (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001). 263 pages.

Gerhart, Gail. Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1978). 364 pages.

Holland, Heidi. The Struggle: A History of the African National Congress (New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1989). 252 pages.

Krog, Antjie. Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in South Africa (New York: Random House, 1999). 403 pages.

Lodge, Tom. Black Politics in South Africa Since 1945 (New York: Longman, 1983). 389 pages.

Mandela, Nelson. The Struggle is My Life: His Speeches and Writings Brought Together with Historical Documents and Accounts of Mandela in Prison by Fellow-Prisoners (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1986). 249 pages.

Meli, Francis. South Africa Belongs to Us: A History of the ANC (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988).

Meredith, Martin. In the Name of Apartheid: South Africa in the Postwar Period (New York: Harper & Row, 1988). 252 pages.

Omer-Cooper, J.D. History of Southern Africa (London: James Currey Publishers, 1994). 291 pages.

Reeves, Richard. Shooting at Sharpeville: The Agony of South Africa (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1961). 141 pages.

Sachs, Albie. The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). 249 pages.

Thompson, Leonard. A History of South Africa (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000). 358 pages.

Worden, Nigel. The Making of Modern South Africa (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1996). 171 pages.

NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, Freedom in Our Lifetime: South Africa's Struggle. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.