The 4-in-1 Congress! - June 26, 1955. The Congress
The 4-in-1 Congress! - June 26, 1955. The Congress of the People meet at the Kliptown football ground with 3, 000 delegates. The congress of the People were made up out of four member-bodies, the A.N.C. the Indian Congress, the Coloured Peoples Organisation and the Congress of Democrats. The Freedom Charter, which the Congress of the People adopted on June 26, were read and signed by delegates. Many speakers on the Freedom Charter, sounded the note that the day might not be far off when its demands would be met; the road might be long, but a united democratic front was the only solution. A.N.C president Albert Luthuli, in his message read to the Congress, said among other things that it should have been plain to the architicts of Union that by excluding from the orbit of democracy the majority of the population, the non-whites, they were laying a false foundation for the new state and making a mockery of democracy to call such a state democratic. The Freedom Carter syas that; The people shall govern; All national groups shall have equal rights; The people shall share in the country's wealth; The land shall be shared among those who work it; All shall be equal before the law; All shall enjoy equal human rights; There shall be work and security; The doors of learning and of culture shall be opened; There shall be houses, security and comfort; There shall be peace and friendship
