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: "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: "On the march"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Black and white. . "Protest against the Senate Bill"Date(s): 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 Photograph: Black Sash 1956[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 13/01/1994. Photograph used in book: M Rodgers, The Black Sash, Johannesburg 1956. B/W print.Date(s): 13 February 1956 Photograph: Black Sash leaders and regional executive committee members planning a demonstration against the Senate Act at Stellenbosch 1956[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. ReproductionDate(s): 12 February 1956 Photograph: Black Sash members at a night vigil[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. ReproductionPhotograph: Black Sash members demonstrating against the Group Areas Act[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. ReproductionPhotograph: Black Sash members wearing badges stating: "Eerbiedig ons grondwet"[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 13/01/1994. Photograph used in book: M Rodgers, The Black Sash, Johannesburg 1956. B/W print.Date(s): 1950s Photograph: Black Sash protest[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 13/01/1994. Photograph used in book: M Rodgers, The Black Sash, Johannesburg 1956. B/W print.Date(s): 1950s Photograph: Black Sash protest in Longmarket Street, Pietermaritzburg[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 13/01/1994. Photograph used in book: M Rodgers, The Black Sash, Johannesburg 1956. B/W print.Date(s): 1950s Photograph: Black Sash protest outside Parliament buildings, Pietermaritzburg[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 13/01/1994. Photograph used in book: M Rodgers, The Black Sash, Johannesburg 1956. B/W print.Date(s): 1950s Photograph: Black Sash protestors: "Coloured municipal voters must retain their rights"[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 13/01/1994. Photograph used in book: M Rodgers, The Black Sash, Johannesburg 1956. B/W print.Date(s): 1950s Photograph: Cape Town Black Sash in a protest march in Cape Town: Book of the Constitution 1955[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. ReproductionDate(s): 11 November 1955 Photograph: Cape Town vigil in the late afternoon 1956[Photograph Collection] Description: Lion's Head in the background. From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. ReproductionDate(s): 13 February 1956 Photograph: Covenanters patrolling streets in Johannesburg on a float objectng to the Senate Act[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. ReproductionDate(s): 24 November 1956? Photograph: Demonstrations against the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Bill 1959[Photograph Collection] Description: Staged by Natal Coastal Region at Durban Post Office. From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 13/01/1994. Photograph used in book: M Rodgers, The Black Sash, Johannesburg 1956. B/W print.Date(s): 189 May 1959 Photograph: Man wearing a yellow sash joined Black Sash women outside the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. ReproductionPhotograph: March planned to Union Buildings; women sitting on the grass and leaving the bench marked 'Europeans Only'[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 9 August 1956 |
Black Sash Archival Collections in South Africa: A Guide