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Title: Black Sash demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Standing in silent protest, this woman was one of 50 members of the Black Sash who staged a demonstration in Cape Town today to mark the end of the parliamentary session. Their placards said: "This session ends with unjust restrictive and undemocratic laws imposed on all South Africans!"
Identifier: islandora:16873

Title: Women's Defence of the Constitution League (Black Sash) protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Piloting the Black Sash protest drive through Cape Town to-day was a little car carrying the symbolic gold book of the Constitution draped in black. At the wheel was Mrs Jessica Power of Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16875

Title: Black Sash members protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Anti-apartheid activists, Forced removals (South Africa), Black Sash (Society)
Description: Black Sash members protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16058

Title: Black Sash demonstration against opening of Nationalist Party Congress, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Some of the 120 Black Sash women who were outside the City Hall, Cape Town last night [25 October 1955] when Prime Minister Mr Strijdom arrived for the opening of the Nationalist Party Congress.
Identifier: islandora:16868

Title: Black Sash demonstration at Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Smiling Premier: Black Sash women line the railing of Parliament as the Prime Minister, Mr Strijdom, gets into his car after the final reading of the South African Act Amendment Bill last night.
Identifier: islandora:16857

Title: The Black Sash, Johannesburg City Hall, 1957
Subject: Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Women political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Race discrimination--South Africa--Johannesburg, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Standing for human rights, outside the City Hall, Johannesburg, 1957. The Black Sash, an organisation of women against apartheid laws, demostrated, often on a daily basis, in front of Johannesburg City Hall.
Identifier: islandora:7462

Title: Black Sash Protest March, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Black Sash Protest March in Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16874

Title: Black Sash vigil outside Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: All Night Vigil. Some of the Black Sash protestors who kept an all-night vigil outside the Houses of Parliament in protest against the artificial enlargement of the Senate to increase the number of National Party representatives in order to pass the Separate Representation of Voters Bill.
Identifier: islandora:16872

Title: Protesting against Black Sash protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: One of the two men who stood among the Black Sash women outside Parliament in the lunch hour yesterday, wearing "sashes" in the Orange Free State Republican colours with the inscription," Die Grondwet is in goeie hande" (The Constitution is in good hands). The Sashers on either side did not flinch during the incident.
Identifier: islandora:16865

Title: Black Sash, War Memorial, Cape Town
Subject: Gardens (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Members of the Black Sash attend a Dedication Service at the War Memorial, Gardens, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16869

Title: Black Sash demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: The Minister of Planning and the Environment, Mr J.J. Loots, walks past a demonstration by about 30 members of the Black Sash at the top of Adderley Street yesterday. The 45-minute demonstration, held with the permission of the Chief Magistrate of Cape Town, Mr J. van Greunen, and the Cape Town City Council, was the first since demonstrations and gatherings were banned in the central area of the city last year. The women held placards and handed out leaflets headed: "Parliament 1974 - What does it offer South Africans?" Mr Loots accepted one of the leaflets.
Identifier: islandora:16855

Title: Black Sash protest against apartheid on public transport, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Protest demonstration by members of the Black Sash in Cape Town today while bus apartheid was being applied for the second day on the Milnerton route.
Identifier: islandora:16863

Title: Black Sash torchlight demonstration against Sabotage Act, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Torchlight demonstration. Members of the Black Sash standing round the Torch of Freedom on the Grand Parade, Cape Town, last night [13.06.62] when a 15-minute torchlight demonstration against General Law Amendment Bill [Sabotage Bill] was staged. The gathering was probably the last before the Bill makes meetings and demonstrations on the Parade illegal.
Identifier: islandora:16867

Title: Black Sash protest against migratory labour system, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Black Sash demonstration outside Parliament against the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill
Identifier: islandora:16862

Title: Protest for release of detainees, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political prisoners--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Hunger strikes--South Africa, Black Sash (Society),
Description: A policeman monitors a hunger strike in protest against the detainment of anti-apartheid activists, during a campaign organised by the Black Sash, outside St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12633

Title: Walking the Black Sash gauntlett, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Former Prime Minister D F Malan passes through a gauntlet of silent Black Sash protestors on the way to the Nationalist Party Congress in Cape Town, 1955.
Identifier: islandora:16870

Title: Black Sash protestor, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political prisoners--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Demonstrations--South Africa, Black Sash (Society),
Description: A woman protests against the detainment of anti-apartheid activists, Cape Town. Her sign reads, "Release or charge all detainees"., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12623

Title: Leaders, Women's Defence of the Constitution League (Black Sash), Cape Town
Subject: Stellenbosch (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Black Sash Leaders: The national and regional leaders of the Women's Defence of the Constitution League met at Blaauwklip, the historic home of Mr. and Mrs. S.S. Palms, near Stellenbosch yesterday, to discuss future plans and policy. They are, left to right: Mrs. H. O'Connor, (O.F.S.) , Mrs. M. Sime (N. Transvaal), Mrs. C. Van Selm ( Cape Western), Mrs. E.H.J. Barker ( Johannesburg), Mrs. W.A.M. Scott (Durban), Mrs. Ruth Foley (national president), Mrs. Jean Sinclair (national chairman), Mrs. M. Corrigall (Natal Midlands), Mrs. M.M. Hitchman (Kimberley), Mrs. G.J. Gilfillan (Middelburg, Cape), Mrs. E. Kirkness (national executive, Pretoria), Mrs. Norman Curry (Border) and Mrs A.M.Pirie (Eastern Cape).
Identifier: islandora:16866

Title: Protest, Women's League in Defence of the Constitution (Black Sash), Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: In this composite picture a woman gives the "V" sign to the car carrying the book symbol of the Constitution when the Black Sash procession moved up and down Adderley Street.
Identifier: islandora:16864

Title: Women in defiance, Johannesburg, 1952
Subject: Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Women political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Race discrimination--South Africa--Johannesburg, Women, Black--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Women of the African National Congress (ANC) in Johannesburg participating in the Defiance Campaign, 1952.
Identifier: islandora:7463

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