District 6
We visited the District 6 museum yesterday. District 6 was an area of Cape Town in which People of Color lived. It was decided that no one of color would be allowed to live there and caused the forced removal of 60000 people from their homes.
The museum is in what was the Methodist church in the District 6 community.
Apartheid and its legacy are everywhere. The comparison between slavery and Jim Crow in the U.S. and the Apartheid era in South Africa is made plain in this museum. Important for anyone visiting Cape Town.
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