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2024 Fall: Global III: Apartheid: Overview, Timelines, Maps

Understanding Apartheid: Lesson Book Published by the Apartheid Museum

Understanding Apartheid: Ebook published by the Apartheid Museum - this book includes a background of apartheid in South Africa and also include ideas for the types of primary sources you can use in the project.

Background Databases

Timelines

Timeline from the Apartheid Museum

  •  Timeline: Each exhibition part is organized chronologically and contains key events and facts about the period/event.

Timelines from South African History Online

  1. Right to Organize Timeline 1500-1994
  2. Apartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
  3. Timeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
  4. United Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994

Map: Find you map in the Book, Atlas of Changing South Africa

To find your map for the project, use this atlas to search. It includes hundreds of thematically organized maps to describe and explain how apartheid impacted life in South Africa, how resistance grew, and the legacy of apartheid.

To cite, choose database and book.

The ISBN is 0203185900. Then change "Chapter or Section" to "Map or Chart". Example:

Christopher, Anthony John. "Figure 6.1 Early Resistance to Apartheid." Map. In The Atlas of Changing South Africa, 2nd ed., 159. London: Routledge, 2001. ProQuest Ebook Central.