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No Triumph, No Tragedy

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Peter White talks to Sandra Laing , who in 1966, at the age often, was removed from her whites only school by police in South Africa and reclassified as coloured for having dark skin and curly hair. Her parents fought to prove she was their daughter, and although she was eventually reclassified as white, she was shunned by white society. Producer Sue Mitchell.
Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Talks:
Peter White
Unknown:
Sandra Laing
Producer:
Sue Mitchell

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