Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko died in Pretoria after sustaining severe injuries in security-police custody. His death exposed the violence used to suppress a movement that rejected imposed Black inferiority and demanded independent political agency. Mourning and international protest made his ideas more widely known. The event connects the struggle over consciousness and dignity with the coercive institutions protecting apartheid.
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Steve Biko's death in detention drew attention to the repression of Black Consciousness organizing.
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His death exposed police violence against a movement asserting Black dignity and independent political agency.