African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… against apartheid, the non-racial Congress Alliance, (2) formed from previously organised racially-based and worker … national protest took place on October 27, 1955, when 2,000 women of all races marched on the Union Buildings in … were willing to carry them. (25) In October 1955, while 2,000 women were marching on Pretoria, 1,000 were protesting …