Leaving Sophiatown
Inhabitants of Sophiatown, a suburb of Johannesburg, wait for a truck to transport them to their new homes in Meadowlands (now part of Soweto), 1959. In 1955, the Group Areas Act allowed the government to relocate the black inhabitants of Sophiatown to the surrounding countryside, having allocated specific living areas to people of specific races. (Photo by Jurgen Schadeberg/Getty Images)
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77169962
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Date created:
January 01, 1959
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