Title: Sophiatown
Description: "A first-person account of the rise to political consciousness and activism of a notorious gang leader from the turbulent ghetto near Johannesburg, where blacks and whites lived side by side. [Mattera] writes powerfully of his wretched life as a wild young man, of his people's struggle for liberation and of his own conversion from violence to the use of peaceful methods. He provides a searing view of a troubled land"--Publisher's Weekly.
Subjects: Colored people (South Africa), Politics and government, Race relations, Journalists, South African Poets, Biography, New York Times reviewed, South africa, history
Places: Johannesburg (South Africa), Sophiatown (Johannesburg, South Africa), South Africa
People: Don Mattera (1935-)
Time periods: 20th century