This image depicts Hector Pieterson, a South African schoolboy killed during the Soweto Uprising. In 1976, thousands of Black high school students formed the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC) and marched peacefully to protest the Afrikaans Medium Decree. This new policy mandated Afrikaans—a language often associated with the oppressor—as a language of instruction in Black schools. Police responded with tear gas and gunfire, killing at least 176 children.
Transcription:
APARTHEID
CRIMES against HUMANITY
Date: undated
Attribution: Poster, undated, Comparative Ethnic Studies Poster Collection, Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley.