Image Number: APN113607
Path:
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Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2000012801:SAED:POLITICS:EDUCATION:JUN1955 - The shut-down on African education - A Black cloud is sweeping over African education today. There is a pincer movement closing in on centers of learning. In primary schools that unfortunate Bantu Education Act has arrived! Masses of parents, under the banner of the African National Congress, particularly on the Reef, went on boycott from the fatal day of April 1 by withdrawing their children from schools. And the Goverments reply? numbers of children who did not turn up for school by and on April 25 have been banned from schooling anywhere in the Union. As a result, of a total number of 6,948 pupils coming under this ban, 116 teachers in all have been served with a month's notice to leave school. The school - going population outside school has thus been increased immensely. Banned pupils, sacked teachers, half-empty classes. (Photograph by Drum Photographer © Baileys Archives) township, neg 659
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections:
Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Location: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5561 x 3717
Media Id: 43_615
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords:
1950s,
1955,
June,
black African children,
students,
horizontal,
black and white image,
South African history,
Africa,
South Africa,
Drum Magazine,
Bantu Education Act,
African National Congress,
ANC,
protests,
protesters,
boycotts,
demonstrations,
banners,
slogans,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No