From Protest to Challenge Vol. 4: Political Profiles, 1882–1990, by Thomas G Karis and Gwendolen Carter, revised and updated by Gail M Gerhart, is out now from Jacana Media.

The book profiles over 600 individual activists who played important political roles during the century before the abolition of apartheid in 1990.

Among those included are John Dube, Clements Kadalie, Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, Beyers Naudé and Joe Slovo, as well as Ellen Kuzwayo, Jay Naidoo, Robert McBride, PK Leballo and Patricia de Lille.

These books are a wonderful resource for future generations of scholars.

The publication of Volume 4 completes Jacana’s second edition of the six volumes of From Protest to Challenge.

About the authors

Gail M Gerhart is the author of Black Power in South Africa: the Evolution of an Ideology, the co-author of volumes 3, 4 and 5 of From Protest to Challenge, and the editor of the second edition of the series.

Thomas G Karis is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the City College, City University of New York.

Gwendolen Margaret Carter (1906–1991) was a Canadian-American political scientist. She was one of the founders of African Studies in the United States, past president of the African Studies Association and was among the most widely known scholars of African affairs in the twentieth century.

From Protest to Challenge complete series

From Protest to Challenge Vol. 1: Protest and Hope, 1882–1932

By Sheridan Johns, revised and updated by Gail M Gerhart and Sheridan Johns

Protest and Hope 1882–1934 consists of ninety-nine primary source documents, accompanied by a text that sets the documents in historical context.

From Protest to Challenge Vol. 2: Hope and Challenge, 1935–1952 

By Thomas G Karis and Sheridan Johns, revised and updated by Gail M Gerhart

The years 1935–1937 mark a major turning point in African politics in South Africa, during which times Africans of widely differing political convictions united to protest against the renewed threat to the real though limited rights of enfranchised African. The heightened political agitation of this period shaped the organisational and tactical issues of subsequent African politics.

From Protest to Challenge Vol. 3: Challenge and Violence, 1953–1964

By Thomas G Karis and Gail M Gerhart, revised and updated by Gail M Gerhart

Challenge and Violence deals with the crucial period of the 1950s and early 1960s. These were years of mass passive resistance to apartheid; years when the ANC was able to rally hundreds of thousands of supporters for its strategy of non-violent protest.

From Protest to Challenge Vol. 4: Political Profiles, 1882–1990

By Thomas G Karis and Gwendolen Carter, revised and updated by Gail M Gerhart

Political Profiles profiles over 600 individual activists who played important political roles during the century before the abolition of apartheid in 1990.

From Protest to Challenge Vol. 5: Nadir and Resurgence, 1964–1979

By Thomas G Karis and Gail M Gerhart, revised and updated by Gail M Gerhart

Nadir and Resurgence continues the indispensable study of the struggle for freedom and justice in South Africa.

From Protest to Challenge Vol. 6: Challenge and Victory, 1980–1990

Gail M Gerhart and Clive Glaser

Challenge and Victory takes up the story in 1980 and examines the crucial decade that preceded the collapse of the apartheid system.

 

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