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Word: communiter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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Then, in a land where a Negro's life has little value, a strange event occurred. Led by Anne McTavish. a white Durban city councilor, scores of white women, leaders of their communit)-, went into the city streets and set up little tables with placards reading: "Save this old man from the gallows." In three days they collected 17,000 white signatures pleading with South Africa's Governor General Ernest George Jansen to reprieve 72-year-old Head Man Mdhlani. It was the first time in South Africa's history that so many whites had united...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Old Man & the Gallows | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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