Three years after the start of the Defiance Campaign, anti-Apartheid activists held a Congress of the People in a Johannesburg suburb, Kliptown. Delegates ratified the Freedom Charter. The document set out the demand for a multi-racial democratically elected government, equal opportunities, and a redistribution of land. Only about 50 of the 3,000 people attending were white, including British Anglican missionary, Father Trevor Huddleston. The South African governments responded with a raid by police armed with Sten guns and rifles with affixed bayonets. Find out what the Freedom Charter said...


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