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Civil protests: various boycotts

1956-07

Africa Media Online

Africa Media Online
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

The Boycott That Has Become A War! - In Evaton the queerest bus boycott in the world has dragged on for 11 months in a blaze of violence that has claimed six lives...In Brakpanand Evaton the cry has been "AZIKWELWA! HADIPALWANGOE! DON&aposT RIDE &aposEM!" In Cape Town it was "DON&aposT BUY TICKETS FOR APARTHEID! DON&aposT BOYCOTT THE BOYCOTT! And away in the American city of Montgomery, Alabama, the Negroes cried: "DOWN WITH JIM CROW!" (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA)

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  • Title: Civil protests: various boycotts
  • Date: 1956-07
  • Location: South Africa
  • Subject Keywords: July,apartheid,Drum Magazine,South Africa,South African history,black and white image,horizontal,politics,1956,Bus Boycott,Defiance Campaign,protests,1950s
  • Original Source: Baileys African History Archive
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