steve biko

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a black South African political leader who started the Black Consciousness Movement, an organization that fought against apartheid (=the system in which black people had no political rights, and black and white people had to live in different areas) . He died while being questioned by the police (1946-77)
{i} Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977), black South African anti-Apartheid activist who was arrested many times and died in police custody after severe beatings, founder of the Black Consciousness Movement