Amy Biehl's last home
Subtitle: a bright life, a tragic death, and a journey of reconciliation in South Africa
By: Steven D. Gish
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780821423219
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Death and burial; Reconciliation; Race relations; Murder; South Africa; South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Politics and government; Amy Biehl Foundation; Crimes against; Political aspects; Political activists; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-364) and index.
Table of contents: title: Complete determination; title: To Washington and beyond; title: Into South Africa; title: Year of the Great Storm; title: Gugulethu; title: "Comrades come in all colors"; title: The Amy phenomenon; title: "Welcome to the struggle, family"; title: Time of trials; title: Laying a new foundation; title: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission; title: Amnesty; title: Mr. and Mrs. Amy Biehl; title: Makhulu; title: The legacy lives on.