Photograph shows Women’s March of 1956 organized by the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW). The march of around 20 000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, was in protest of the introduction of pass laws by the apartheid government. Eli Weinberg, ANC Archives © African Pictures Image Number: APN753315
- What information does this photograph provide about resistance to the pass laws?
- What is the value of this source to historians of the system of apartheid in South Africa?
- Why do you think this photograph is held by a collection in the ANC [African National Congress] Archives?
- How do sources 6a-6c provide understanding of the impact of the pass laws? What other sources would be useful?