Soweto Uprising

The Soweto uprising is when a couple hundred of school children decided to protest because they thought they had something worth fighting for. The whites were trying to say that the black children should be taught Afrikaan, the blacks didn't think so though. On June 16, 1976 at 9:30am they all took some action. The children went with no weapons and didn't plan on fighting with the police. Out of no where with no warning the police just started to shoot at the children. Little innocent children were killed either by gun fire or by being trampled by older children trying to get out of the way. After this incident got around to the rest of the world people were appauled by what happened. Because of this Nelson Mandela decided to get involved and took real action. I think this is something important to know about because no matter where you stay at there is always something happening somewhere else. Something tragic and somthing that will touch your heart. Even when we think it's all over it never really is.