| BLACK SASH IN ACTION AGAIN | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 8608 |
| Catalog #: | 140110 | |
| Clip Number: | 140110-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 2928 G | |
| Timecode: | 01:09:02 - 01:09:30 | |
| Location: | Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Year Shot: | 1957 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CIVIL RIGHTS: Apartheid CIVIL RIGHTS: Race Relations DEMONSTRATIONS: Civil LOCATIONS/AFRICA: South Africa, Johannesburg | |
| Description: | BLACK SASH AGAIN IN ACTION The Black Sash was a non-violent white women's resistance organization. The Black Sash initially campaigned against the removal of Coloured or mixed race voters from the voters' roll in the Cape Province by the National Party government - white resistance towards the apartheid system. Johannesburg, South Africa. LS Black Sash women outside Johannesburg City Hall. MS pan line up of women with posters. MS several of the women with posters reading 'Let the Courts not the Cabinet be our Judges'. MS woman distributing pamphlets to passers by. MS bookstall where 'The Black Sash' by Mirabel Rogers is being sold. CU the book. MS crowd of women round stall looking at copies of the book. CU Mrs Jean Sinclair, the National Chairman of the Black Sash League, autographing one of her books. MS long line of Black Sash women leading up to the City Hall. | |
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