Circular convening a meeting to discuss segregation on trains and flyer calling on passengers to resist segregation on trains by sitting in seats marked For Whites Only.
Archive record
Defend the right to sit where you like: resist train apartheid

- Origin date
- 12 August 1948
- Updated
- 26 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Defend the right to sit where you like: resist train apartheid . South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0112060
South African History Online (2016) 'Defend the right to sit where you like: resist train apartheid ', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0112060 (Accessed: 25 October 2026).
South African History Online, Defend the right to sit where you like: resist train apartheid [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0112060, (accessed 25 October 2026).
"Defend the right to sit where you like: resist train apartheid ." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0112060. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.
South African History Online. "Defend the right to sit where you like: resist train apartheid ." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0112060.
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Letter from Barney Pityana to Neville Curtis
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