First Lady Michelle Obama tours the Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum

First Lady Michelle Obama tours the Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum with Antoinette Sithole, left, Hector Pieterson’s sister, and other men who led the Soweto protests, at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto, South Africa, June 22, 2011. Hector Pieterson was 13 when he was killed by police in 1976 during a street protest triggered by a law requiring students to abandon local languages and study in Afrikaans, the language of the descendants of Dutch settlers. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)