Photograph of Mr Strauss[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. "Part of crowd of more than 5000 in Belgrave Square Pretoria who came to hear Mr Strauss speak against the Senate Bill."Date(s): 1955 Photograph of protest against the Senate Bill[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. "A crowd of about 18 000 people in front of the Johannesburg City Hall to protest against the Senate Bill."Date(s): 1955 Photograph of Women of the Defence of the Constitution League: "Collecting signatures for the petition against the Senate Bill"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. Two women at a table where two men are signing a petition. Two other women look on.Date(s): 1955 Photograph of women protesting[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. "Protesting the racial job reservation clause of the Industrial Conciliation Act, Johannesburg City Hall."Date(s): November 1957 Photograph: "Accusation against the Prime Minister, J G Strydom, and his Cabinet, and a call for his resignation"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. Two women holding up a board with the accusation on it: "We accuse you the Prime Minister and your Cabinet of destroying the Constitution of the Union, ignoring the will of the people, keeping our children apart in the schools, destr [. . .]Date(s): 1956 Photograph: "Group areas protest"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. Queen Elizabeth Bridge, Johannesburg. Four women standing on a street corner holding a placard: "20 000 up-rooted from their homes!"Date(s): Undated Photograph: "Groups Areas protest"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. Placard reads: "We protest against the deprivation of basic human rights"Date(s): 1956 Photograph: "Johannesburg City Hall steps"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. Two women holding signs that read: "The right to speak from these steps has gone" and "Die reg om van hierdie trappies te praat her verval"Date(s): 1958 Photograph: "Johannesburg station: Seeing members off to the National Conference in Bloemfontein"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. Group of women boarding a train.Date(s): 1956 Photograph: "Making black sashes"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. "Making black sashes for the vigil at the Johannesburg City Hall following the publication in the Government Gazette of the dissolution of the Senate." Six women gathered round a sewing machine, chatting and making sashes.Date(s): November 1955 Photograph: "Protest against Gous giullotine action in Parliament"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. Banner: "The Death of our Parliament, Die Dood van ons Parlement" with giullotine showing Parliament being decapitated.Date(s): May 1955 Photograph: "Protest against Senate Bill"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Union Buildings, Pretoria. Black and white.Date(s): 1955 Photograph: "Protest against the issue of reference books to black women"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. Banners read: "Reference books for women are not yet compulsory. For African women and their families reference books will mean insecurity, misery, fear and suffering. A reference book is not an identity card"Date(s): 1958 Photograph: "Protest against the Senate Bill"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. "Women camp out for the second night, Union Buildings, Pretoria"Date(s): 1955 Photograph: "Sitting at Union Buildings before 12 hour vigil outside Prime Minister's office"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. Placards: "The Senate Act, the case is lost but not the cause", "Die Senaat Wet, Nou Wetlik - Vir Ewig Immoraal", "The Senate Act, Legal Now but Immoral forever"Date(s): 1956 Photograph: "Students of Pretoria University, dressed as women, joined the solemn march of protest against the Senate Bill in order to interfere"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white.Date(s): 1 June 1955 Photograph: "The petition arrives"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. "Mrs B Brummer (with Mrs Ruth Foley) chair of the Women Defence of the Constitution League presents the petition of 90 000 women against the Senate Act to B J Schoeman, Minister of Transport.Date(s): 1955 |