Dr. Melville Edelstein and South Africa’s 1976 Soweto uprising
The event sent shockwaves through the international community as images of dead children made the front pages of newspapers from the United States to Germany.
POLICEMEN STAND during the anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, marked every year, in Soweto, 2006. Dozens of black high school students were killed by white security forces on June 16, 1976, during a protest directed at the insistence that students be taught in Afrikaans, seen then as the language o(photo credit: SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS)ByBNJI SHULMAN