1968: civil rights activists march for black equality on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee (Image: Bettmann/Corbis)
“The rights of the people shall be the same, regardless of race, colour or sex… all laws which discriminate on grounds of race, colour or belief shall be repealed”
THESE uplifting and momentous sentiments come from the Freedom Charter of South Africa of 1955. They were to be echoed later in the country’s 1996 constitution. Similar phrases were enshrined in the US Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the UK Race Relations Act of 1965. By the latter half of the 20th century, discrimination…
