Working Class History@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD 9 Aug 1956 20,000 women in Pretoria, South Africa, marched against pass laws: apartheid laws curtailing freedom of movement for Black and Indian people. A wave of civil disobedience followed. The day is commemorated in South Africa as Women's Day https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10880/south-africa-women's-day