South African Students' Organisation

LC control no.	n 00094823
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	South African Students' Organisation *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	SASO South African Student Organisation South African Students' Organization
Beginning date	1968
Ending date	1977-10
Associated country	South Africa
Found in	Black student politics, higher education and apartheid, 1999: t.p. (SASO) p. 2, etc. (South African Students' Organisation; f. in 1968) South African History Online, viewed June 11, 2015 (South African Student Organisation (SASO); formed in 1968 after some members of Univ. of Natal's Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) decided to break away from the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), a liberal organization dominated by white students; it emerged from a black caucus formed at a 1968 meeting at Marianhill, Natal of UCM (University Christian Movement), formed the year before; its first conference was held in July 1969, where Steve Biko was elected its first president; in 1973 several leaders were banned, and in Oct. 1977 the organization was banned along with other BC (Black Consciousness) organizations; its ideologies were adopted by successive organizations such as AZAPO) Encyclopedia Britannica online, June 11, 2015 role of [Steve] Biko (South African Students' Organization)