pic6106. Trafalgar Square rally, 28 May 1961

pic6106. Trafalgar Square rally, 28 May 1961

ANC leader Oliver Tambo in Trafalgar Square at an AAM rally on Sunday 28 May 1961. The rally was held to support a strike in South Africa organised in protest against celebrations of South Africa becoming a republic on 31 May. The strike was called by a National Action Committee, who asked workers  to stay at home on 29, 30 and 31 May. There was massive repression in the run-up to the strike and it had only patchy support. The strike was the last major attempt at mass peaceful protest in South Africa until the mid-1980s.

Category: 1960s
Copyright: Romano Cagnoni/ reportdigital.co.uk
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Date/Year: 1961