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... > social science subjects > sociology > race, ethnicity and migration > black studies > movements > black consciousness movement

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black consciousness movement  

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  • The black consciousness movement was a political, cultural, and social movement that originated in South Africa during the same time as the rise of Black Studies in the United States, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The leader of the black consciousness movement was Bantu Stephen Biko, a charismatic man of enormous intellectual abilities. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; Black Consciousness Movement]

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