Defiance Campaign
1952 · Event
Volunteers led by Mandela deliberately break apartheid laws — whites-only entrances, curfews, pass laws — and fill the jails; ANC membership soars.
On these timelines: The Fall of Apartheid, Sub-Saharan Africa, Master
More from The Fall of Apartheid
- Apartheid (1948)
- Soweto uprising (1976)
- Sharpeville massacre (1960)
- Mandela imprisoned (Rivonia Trial) (1964)
- The National Party wins on apartheid (1948)
- Mandela inaugurated as President (1994)
- The Freedom Charter (1955)
- De Klerk takes power (1989)
Around 1952
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- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)