9Th2

Today we looked at where racism came from, particularly looking at slavery and the Windrush. We considered the kinds of pictures racist people might have in their heads when thinking about people of a different race and how we might change that.

Where does racism come from?

Play the racism quiz

For the homework look here…

Firstly, everyone needs to find out a little bit about Apartheid. Basically it was a time in South Africa between 1948 and 1990 during which there was a separation of white people from those of other races. Many non-white people were badly oppressed during this time. Look here for some information.

Your homework is to find out a bit about 3 people who fought against Apartheid. You were divided into three groups. Each group needs to do some research.

Each of the below links are Wikipedia articles to get you started. I hope you’ll Google these people yourselves to find out a bit more than the basics. I’m particularly interested in whether religious ideas made a difference to what they did.

• Group 1: Nelson Mandela. Look here to start with.
• Group 2: Desmond Tutu. Go here.
• Group 3: Trevor Huddlestone. Try here.

If you weren’t there in the lesson then just pick any of the above to find out about!
Good luck!