In 1954 the apartheid government was determined to demolish Sophiatown, the multi-racial suburb of Johannesburg. The African National Congress (ANC), encouraged by Mandela, campaigned vigorously to resist, pictured here saying, "We won't move!", Sophiatown, 1955. When the police arrived that first day, people banged and tapped with stones and iron bars against the lamp-posts and Sophiatown echoed in defiance.
