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 prepared to challenge pass controls, segregated facilities, and other racist laws through public acts that exposed how apartheid converted everyday movement and access into instruments of domination.
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What made the Defiance Campaign significant?
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The joint campaign mobilized volunteers from multiple communities.
Mandela led the Defiance Campaign alone, without other organizations.
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It was jointly organized by the ANC and South African Indian Congress.