Research Questions Part VI
Who was Stephen Biko? What happened to him and how did the world react?
answer: Stephen Biko was born in South Africa in 1946. While he was a medical student at The University of Natel he then got interested in politics. In 1969 he became the president of the Soth African sutudent organazation. Unlike the ANC, Biko didn't believe in violent ways to try to get changes in south africa for the blacks. He also tried to get blacks to get themselves to think mentally they were white. This way the would undersatnd they were equal to the whites and not less than what the whites say they are. Less of a person. IN the early 1970's the SASO organization, organized strikes at the universites and celebrated blacks getting to rule in countres near south africa like Angoal and Mozambique. the south African goverment got afriad of Biko because he was so popular, he was then was put in prison and was beaten to death in 1977. After he died an uproar went off through out the black people of south africa and they all blamed the goverment.