An edition of Rivonia's children (1999)
Rivonia's children
three families and the cost of conscience in white South Africa
By Glenn Frankel
Publish Date
1999
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Language
eng
Pages
381
Description:
"Rivonia's Children is the harrowing and inspiring account of a handful of white Jewish activists who risked their lives to combat apartheid when South Africa plunged into an era of darkness in the 1960s from which it has only recently emerged. This is the story of Hilda and Rusty Bernstein, longtime Communists so committed to the cause that even the threat of life imprisonment did not stop them; of Ruth First, a fiery activist held for months without charge; and of AnnMarie Wolpe, an innocent bystander sucked into the maelstrom, who had to decide whether or not to risk her own freedom and the life of her sick infant by helping her activist husband escape from prison"--Jacket.
subjects: Anti-apartheid movements, History, Politics and government, Race relations, Rivonia trial, Pretoria, South Africa, 1964, Whites, New York Times reviewed, South africa, race relations, Whites, history, South africa, politics and government, Trials (treason), south africa, Apartheid, Political activists
Places: South Africa