abstract:The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.THE SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE: Its historic significance in the struggle against apartheid by David M.
Ms. BUTLER: For years there's been a blackconsciousnessmovement since the 1970s working to help people appreciate the richness and, you know, stop denigrating their own culture.