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Hector: A Boy, a Protest, and the Photograph that Changed Apartheid
By Wright, Adrienne
- ISBN
- 9781624146916
- Publisher
- Page Street
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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on June 1, 2019
Straightforward text and comics-style sequential art combine in a (fictionalized) account of the Black student-led protest in Soweto, South Africa, on June 16, 1976, in opposition to the apartheid government's new law requiring schools to teach half of their lessons in Afrikaans. Three separate yet intertwined chapters follow three individuals through the protest: student Hector Zolile Pieterson; his older sister Antoinette Sithole; and newspaper photographer Sam Nzima. Hector is an "ordinary twelve-year-old boy" who does chores, loves Bruce Lee, and play...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on June 1, 2019
Straightforward text and comics-style sequential art combine in a (fictionalized) account of the Black student-led protest in Soweto, South Africa, on June 16, 1976, in opposition to the apartheid government's new law requiring schools to teach half of their lessons in Afrikaans. Three separate yet intertwined chapters follow three individuals through the protest: student Hector Zolile Pieterson; his older sister Antoinette Sithole; and newspaper photographer Sam Nzima. Hector is an "ordinary twelve-year-old boy" who does chores, loves Bruce Lee, and play...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
