The Children Who Broke an Empir- June 16, 1976

On June 16, 1976 fifty years ago today the schoolchildren of Soweto, South Africa marched against a system designed to educate them into permanent inferiority, and police opened fire on them with live ammunition. We know the photograph. What we don't know is who organized that uprising, who took credit for it, what happened to the man who documented it, and what the official anniversary leaves out. This is the history beneath the history of Soweto.