Anti-pass Campaign
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 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
Picture No
10651334
Media ID
44338081
Size
4794px x 4787px
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Credit
©Africa Media Online / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph - Drum Social Histories
Date
1956
