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jun 16, 1952 - The African National Congress starts the Defiance Campaign.

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Volunteers begin a peaceful resistance to apartheid by breaking the laws they think are wrong. The peaceful protests include black people sitting on benches marked for white people only and being out in the city after the curfew set for blacks.

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jun 16, 1952
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~ 73 years ago