On the Day of the Volunteers, participants pledged to serve the campaign and follow its disciplined instructions. The pledge framed civil disobedience as organized collective service. Volunteers...
The ANC and South African Indian Congress launched a major campaign of non-violent civil disobedience. Mandela served as national volunteer-in-chief, coordinating a movement whose volunteers...
After a meeting at the Garment Workers Hall, Mandela and Maulvi Cachalia were among those arrested for leaving after curfew. They had planned to observe rather than be arrested during the day’s...
