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                        Steven Biko

 Apartheid in South Africa was one of the three most blatantly  institutionalized racist regimes in history.  Many people fought to  overturn Apartheid.  Eventually, their struggles succeeded in doing so.    
 On December 18, 1946 one future fighter was born Steven Bantu Biko,  in King Williams Town, part of South Afrika's  Eastern Cape province.  Biko first became politically active with the multiracial Nation Union of  South African Students while attending the University of Natal Medical  School.  In 1968 he became a founding member of the South African  Students Organization.  The organization was founded with the belief   that Indian and Colored students would benefit  from their own  organization.  Biko was also elected the first President of the  organization which evolved into the Black Consciousness Movement.   Come 1972 he was honorary President of the Black People's Convention.  The following March South Afrika's government banned him.  The dubious distinction included limiting his ability to speak to more than one person at a time (basically making it impossible for him to make public speeches) and  putting him under a virtual house arrest in his King Williams Town home.  In response Biko and the BCM sparked the Soweto Riots on June 16, 1976.
 
August 18, 1977 Steven Biko was arrested at a police roadblock (under the Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967).  He was then beaten while in custody and chained to a window grill for an entire day.  On September 11, 1977 he was transferred to Pretoria, 740 miles away.  The following day Steven Bantu Biko died of injuries due to head trauma he suffered while incarcerated by the South Afrikan police.