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Amy Biehl's last home : a bright life, a tragic death, and a journey of reconciliation in South Africa  Cover Image Book Book

Amy Biehl's last home : a bright life, a tragic death, and a journey of reconciliation in South Africa / Steven D. Gish.

Gish, Steven, 1963- (author.).

Summary:

In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town after working to promote democracy and women's rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of South Africa's most heralded stories of postapartheid reconciliation.

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  • ISBN: 0821423215
  • ISBN: 9780821423219
  • Physical Description: xvii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: Hardback edition.
  • Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Complete determination -- To Washington and beyond -- Into South Africa -- Year of the great storm -- Gugulethu -- "Comrades come in all colors" -- The Amy phenomenon -- "Welcome to the struggle, family" -- Time of trials -- Laying a new foundation -- TheTruth and Reconciliation Commission -- Amnesty -- Mr. and Mrs. Amy Biehl -- Makhulu -- The legacy lives on.
Subject: Biehl, Amy > Death and burial.
South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Amy Biehl Foundation.
Murder > Political aspects > South Africa > Cape Town.
Political activists > Crimes against > South Africa.
Reconciliation > Political aspects > South Africa.
South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century.
South Africa > Race relations > Political aspects > History > 20th century.

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