hgs24. Save the Sharpeville 6

hgs24. Save the Sharpeville 6

Leaflet publicising a demonstration on the day of the expected court hearing of the Sharpeville Six’s appeal on 10 September 1987. The hearing was delayed until November. The six, five men and one woman, were sentenced to death in December 1985 after joining a demonstration at which a black deputy mayor was killed. The appeal was rejected and they were held on death row for ten more months until they were reprieved in July 1988. The action was organised by the London AA Committee with support from trade unions and anti-racist groups.

Category: Stop the hangings
Copyright: AAM Archives Committee
Holding Institution: AAM Archive, Bodleian Library
Date/Year: 1987