Our Rights, Our Fight!

Our Rights, Our Fight!

Chicago Anti-Apartheid

In 1990 Speak Magazine constructed a poster showcasing a group of women fighting for their rights in South Africa. It’s bold red letters on the top and bottom of the print give a feeling of strength and need for social change. This poster is part of a bigger collection known as the Disa collection (Digital Innovation South Africa). Disa displays the struggle for freedom in South Africa through 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994. South African women grew in confidence and power throughout this time period of 44 years “As Kimble and Unterhalter note point to where this is in our readings, by 1980 women had “distinguished themselves by their militancy” (ibid.). In this time one of the lead activists in the apartheid movement got locked up for conspiring to overthrow the state following the Rivonia Trial (The Rivonia Trial is a trial that indicted leaders of the African National Congress). We can see how big of an impact Mandela is on the apartheid movement by the women wearing the free Mandela shirts in the crowd.

Columbia College Chicago Students

Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection, College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago

College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago.

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Miller, Kim. “Moms with Guns: Women's Political Agency in Anti-Apartheid Visual Culture.” African Arts, vol. 42, no. 2, 2009, pp. 68–75., doi:10.1162/afar.2009.42.2.68.

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