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African National Congress

political party, South Africa
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Also known as: ANC, South African Native National Congress
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Category: History & Society
Date:
1912 - present
Areas Of Involvement:
nationalism
apartheid
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African National Congress (ANC), South African political party and Black nationalist organization. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it had as its main goal the maintenance of voting rights for Coloureds (persons of mixed race) and Black Africans in Cape Province. It was renamed the African National Congress in 1923. From the 1940s it spearheaded the fight to eliminate apartheid, the official South African policy of racial separation and discrimination. The ANC was banned from 1960 to 1990 by the white South African government; during these three decades it operated underground and outside South African territory. ...(100 of 1889 words)

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