A one-day stay-away against the banning of communist leaders drew workers in Johannesburg and Soweto. Police violence killed Black protesters; Mandela sheltered overnight in a nurses’ dormitory. He later moved toward the view that defeating apartheid required a broad alliance across racial lines, though the ANC Youth League had opposed the stay-away. This episode records political change as contested and collective, rather than presenting it as a sudden personal conversion.
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How did the 1950 May Day crackdown affect Mandela’s thinking?
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The crackdown contributed to his movement toward a wider non-racial alliance.
The ANC Youth League supported the May Day 1950 stay-away from the outset.
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The Youth League opposed the stay-away, though the violence became a turning point in Mandela’s thinking.