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Article: ANC: Revolution to evolution
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- April 29, 1994
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Jr. Washington, Linn
Philadelphia Tribune, The
04-29-1994
ANC: Revolution to evolution.
By Linn Washington Jr.
Tribune Staff
When South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) was founded in 1912, many of its leaders opposed massive demonstrations and other confrontations fearing such tactics would alienate white sympathizers. The ANC, like the NAACP in America, sought to effect changes in white supremacy through moral and political appeals.
The ANC sought an incremental approach to ending the apartheid system first instituted by Dutch and English colonizers, seeking to prove to skeptical white racists that Black South Africans were entitled to the freedom that was their right by birth.
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