The story of the fight against official racism in South Africa and the southern United States. South Africans describe the extension of apartheid in the fifties, the imposition of the pass laws and the repression, which included the 1960 Sharpeville shootings. Americans who took part in the drive for de-segregation in schools, restaurants and buses remember the progress made in the early sixties leading to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Although individual prejudice continued, the act at least gave them equality before the law. At the same time in South Africa, however, official discrimination was increasing.

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