Black Consciousness

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  • The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a grass-roots and anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960's.
  • The Black Consciousness Movement replaced the vacuum left by the banned ANC and PAC. It was a social movement rather than a political one.
  • The BCM attacked what they saw as traditional white values, especially the "condescending" values of white people of liberal opinion.
  • The BCM became a campaign of challenge to what was referred to by the BCM as "the system".
  • BCM eventually sparked a confrontation on June 1976 in the Soweto Uprising.