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.
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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: 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 Sept. 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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