Image Number: dm2000020106
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Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2000020106:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:OCT1955 - Defiance Trials - masses at the defiance trials - The defiance campaign was born over a year ago, in Johannesburg, on July 1951, when non-white leaders met and decided to form a Joint Planning Council to co-ordinate Africans, Indians and Coloureds, and "to embark upon an immediate mass campaign for the repeal of oppressive measures" which the Council were pledged to attack were, and still are, limited to the Pass Laws, Stock Limitations, the Group Ares Act, the Separate Voters, Represantation Act, the Bantu Authorities Act, and the Suppresssion of Communism Act. The Joint Planning Council consisted of J.B. Marks, Dr Moroka and Walter Sisulu, of the African National Congress. They issued a report, to be put before the African National Congress, the Government should be called on to repeal the unjust laws, if they refused, mass demonstrations were to be held followed by the defiance campaign. April 6 at Freedom square Fordsburg, the
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections:
Drum Social Histories
Pixel Size: 2080 x 1960
Media Id: 43_10
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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