From Protest to Challenge, Vol. 2: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964: Hope and Challenge, 1935-1952

by Gwendolen M. Carter, Thomas Karis

Overview

From Protest to Challenge rescues from obscurity the voices of protest in South Africa through the publication of rare documents housed in the collections of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. These excerpts from political ephemera, radical newspapers, and other materials provide a documentary history of opposition groups in South Africa. They bear witness not only to a remarkable period in South African history but also to the vital need for the preservation of historical documents as an essential tool of scholarship. These materials are as relevant today as when they were first published, graphically demonstrating the South African struggle for peace, freedom, and equality. Volume  2  covers the years 1935  to 1952, a period framed by the All-African Convention, arranged in response to proposed legislation limiting the rights of native Africans, and the launch of the Defiance Campaign protesting apartheid laws.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817912222
Publisher:	Hoover Institution Press
Publication date:	06/01/1973
Series:	HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION Series , #2
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.60(d)

Editorial Reviews

"The four volumes which comprise From Protest to Challenge are among the most indispensable resources now available to historians of South Africa." —Leonard Thompson, ASA Review of Books

"… a feat of such distinction that it is hard to call to mind a single parallel or precedent." —The Times Literary Supplement

"… a magnificent job of research and editing and the book is a mine for the student of history and all who seek to understand this country." —New Nation

"[The volumes are largely based on the] Hoover Institution's collection of the materials which the struggle for African liberation has spawned so generously and widely regarded as being the most comprehensive collection in the world." —The African Communist

"…this publication is of major importance in the study of South African politics." —The American Political Scientist Review

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