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Black Consciousness Movement of Azania

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Organisation that was the external arm of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). An anti-apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s after the banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership following the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.

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