pic8605. Vigil for the Sharpeville Six

pic8605. Vigil for the Sharpeville Six

SATIS (Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society) held a vigil for the Sharpeville Six on the steps of St Martin’s in the Fields in April 1986. The Six, five men and one woman, were sentenced to death in December 1985 for taking part in a demonstration at which a black deputy mayor was killed. They were reprieved in July 1988 after spending two and a half years on death row.

Category: 1980s
Copyright: Jez Coulson/IFL
Holding Institution: AAM Archive, Bodleian Library
Catalogue: MSS AAM 2416
Date/Year: 1986