1956 - Anti-pass Campaign - On August 9, 1956, 20 000

1956 - Anti-pass Campaign - On August 9, 1956, 20 000 women of all races, some with babies on their backs, form the cities and towns, from reserves and villages, took a petition addressed to the Prime Minister to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. He was not in. The petition demanded of Strijdom that the pass laws be abolished. In 1955 - protest women wait - women from all over the Reef gathered at the Union Buildings, Pretoria on Thursday, October 27, to protest to cabinet Minister about a suggestion that African women carry passes and against the Bantu Education Act. (Photograph by Drum Photographer @ BAHA)

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