Black Consciousness Movement

Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM short; German as " movement of the Black self-consciousness ") was a political movement of black South Africans.

History

In the 1960s there were several groups in South Africa who were in opposition to the prevailing system of apartheid. One of these groups was the Black Consciousness Movement. As its founder is considered the student leader Steve Biko. She was strongly influenced by the Black Power movement of the blacks in the United States.

Basis of the motion was an increased self-confidence of the blacks against the white ruling minority. With the Black Consciousness Movement, the Black recollected increasingly on their own values ​​.

With the violent death of Steve Biko in 1977 in the prison, the Black Consciousness Movement was a movement barely active, but their ideas contributed ultimately at the end of apartheid.

The Azanian People's Organisation ( AZAPO ) is a party who relies on the guidelines of the BCM. She was at the South African Parliament elections in 2009 a seat