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    Black Sash demonstration between 1955 and 1960. The Black Sash is a South African human rights organisation. It was founded in Johannesburg in 1955 as a non-violent resistance organisation for liberal white women.

  2. The disrespect of South Africa’s charter was the force that fueled the initial six women into the Women’s Defense of the Constitution League, today known as The Black Sash. Although racial prejudice was not the original factor behind the formation of women, their ideology and organization transformed throughout the decades.

  3. The organisation grew into an avenue for liberal women to oppose government policies by means of marches, convoys, demonstrations and vigils. It came to be called the Black Sash because the women wore black sashes over one shoulder as they stood to demonstrate against discriminatory legislation.

  4. Established in 1955, Black Sash is a veteran human rights organisation advocating for social justice in South Africa. Our work is deeply committed to understanding and promoting social protection in South Africa.

  5. Born in 1955 out of outrage over an artificial enlargement of the Senate that enabled entrenched clauses of the 1910 Constitution to be amended, the Black Sash has fought tirelessly against injustice and inequality in South Africa for nearly six decades.

  6. 27 de jul. de 2015 · Mary Burton's first Black Sash protest stand was in Kalk Bay on a fine day in 1965, after the government had threatened to proclaim the historic fishing village 'white' under the Group Areas Act. Poster in hand, Burton and a group of women stood silently alongside the main road, black sashes draped across their bodies, the target of ...

  7. 29 de jun. de 2015 · The Black Sash is a non-violent white women's resistance organisation founded in South Africa in 1955 . The Black Sash initially campaigned against the removal of Coloured or mixed race voters from the voters' roll in the Cape Province by the National Party government.