Today in Labor History May 2, 1980: The South African government banned "Another Brick in the Wall," by Pink Floyd. They did this because striking black teachers and students sang it in their protests against inferior, segregated education. The Apartheid government called the song "prejudicial to the safety of the state." And Apartheid was not prejudicial?
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