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 first acts of defiance, but the evening arrests made the campaign’s leaders targets too. The arrest showed how the state used curfews and police powers to suppress an organized challenge to apartheid law.
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