South Africa's 1956 Treason Trial

From Emergent Africa Fri Sep 20 2013, 10:00:00

Presented by the Google Cultural Institute:

The Treason Trial was the South African apartheid government's response to the adoption of the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown on June 26, 1955. The 156 people arrested by the apartheid government included then President of the African National Congress (ANC), Chief Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. More here

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