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spazzmann

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Thu Sep 12, 2013, 08:20 AM Sep 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on September 12, 1977


Steve Biko, the leader of the black consciousness movement, and probably the most influential young black leader in in South Africa, died while being held by security forces in Port Elizabeth; he was the forty-first person to die while in police custody in South Africa. http://bit.ly/1aCSPG4

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