ON 21 March 1960 at 1.40 in the afternoon, apartheid South Africa’s police opened fire on a peaceful crowd of about 4,000 residents of Sharpeville, who were protesting against carrying identity documents that restricted black people’s movement. The police minimised the number of victims by at least one-third and justified the shooting by claiming that the crowd was violent. This shocking story has been thus misrepresented for over 60 years. NANCY L CLARK, Dean and Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University WILLIAM H. WORGER, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Los Angeles Our new research retells the story of Sharpeville,…