"Ernest Cole (1940–1990)—one of South Africa’s first black
photo-journalists—created powerful photographs that revealed to the
world what it meant to be black under apartheid. With imaginative
daring, courage, and compassion, Cole portrayed the everyday lives of
blacks as they negotiated apartheid’s racist laws and oppression.
Apartheid, which means “apartness” in Afrikaans (the language of South
Africa’s white minority of Dutch descent), was an often brutally
enforced legal policy that separated people by race in all aspects of
life, within a white supremacist hierarchy of power."
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