The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderatio...
One of the important political events covered by Drum journalists and photographers in the 1950s was the 1952 Defiance C...
Protest march. Transvaal, June 1958: After the ban on politics in parts of the Marico district.
Police force open a window to the Indian Congress offices in Johannesburg on 31 July 1952. They confiscated many documen...
Leaders call for 10 000 volunteers.
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Dr. Dadoo during the Defiance Campaign trial, smoking his symbolic pipe whilst talking to Ruth First
At Freedom Square, Fordburg the crowd masses to hear Moroka and Dadoo Speak from the platform, calling for volunteers fo...
African National Congress leaders outside the Johannesburg Supreme Court during the Defiance Campaign trial in 1952.&nbs...
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