African National Congress Women's League

Women march against passes in Pretoria

📅 27 October 1955

About 2,000 women of different racial backgrounds marched to the Union Buildings against the planned extension of pass laws to African women.

Twenty thousand women march on the Union Buildings

📅 9 August 1956

Women delivered petitions opposing passes for African women and stood in disciplined silence before singing the protest song later associated with the phrase: You strike a woman, you strike a rock.