EVENT INFORMATION

26
Juni
1955

The Congress of the People adopts the Freedom Charter

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Biografie 📅 26 Juni 1955 📍 Zuid-Afrika

Delegates at Kliptown adopted the Freedom Charter, a program asserting that South Africa belonged to all who lived in it and demanding political equality and social rights. Mandela was banned from attending and followed the proceedings secretly. The charter emerged from a mass collection of demands and a broad Congress Alliance; it was not a document authored by Mandela alone.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Nelson Mandela

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Congress Alliance

African National Congress

South African Indian Congress

Congress of Democrats

South African Congress of Trade Unions