Full Collection Details

Records of the Black Sash

Units in Collection

This Collection contains 874 units

Finding Aids

Published inventory available: Historical and Literary Papers: Inventories of Collections: No. 24. Records of the Black Sash. Also available in Word Document link.

Quick Guide

The Quick Guide is a list of all the items relevant to the Black Sash in this particular collection.

Black Sash (Donor)

Repository: Historical Papers, University of the Witwatersrand
Reference code: AE862
Extent: 331 boxes
City: Johannesburg
Dated: 1955-1995
Scope:Correspondence, circulars, minutes, reports, photographs, press statements and clippings, scrapbooks, set of the Black Sash and case histories for the Johannesburg and Athlone Advice Offices. Subjects are political protest, resettlements, group areas, migrant labour, passes, influx control, detentions, banishments, education, trade unions, women and voter education.

Media: Text documents; Publications; Still images; Ephemera; Speeches

Themes:Advice Offices (pre or post 1995); Advocacy; Apartheid-era black affairs; Children; Conferences; Economy; Education; Finances; Freedom; Health; History; Housing; Human rights; International affairs; Justice; Labour; Land; Legal issues; Military; Monitoring; National administration (pre 1995); Other areas of involvement or concern; Other organisations; Personnel; Policy statements; Poverty; Protests, demonstrations, campaigns; Regional administration (pre 1995); Repression; Rural work; Social welfare; Special projects; Transport; Women

Percentage of collection relevant to Black Sash: 100%

Location contact details

Organisation: Historical Papers, William Cullen Library, University of the Witwatersrand
Telephone: 27 (0)11 717 1940
Fax: 27 (0)11 717 1940
Email: michele.pickover@wits.ac.za, zofia.sulej@wits.ac.za, gabriele.mohale@wits.ac.za
Website: http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za
Street address: Room 2, Ground Floor, William Cullen Library, East Campus, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein
Postal address: Private Bag X1 PO Wits
Area: Braamfontein
City: Johannesburg
Postal code: 2050
Province / State: Gauteng
Country: South Africa