cover image: Racial segregation on Cape Town trains, Cape Town, 1948

Racial segregation on Cape Town trains, Cape Town, 1948

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Section of the crowd of non-Europeans at one of the suburban train platforms of the Cape Town Station after a mass meeting on the Grand Parade in protest against the Government segregation policy on suburban trains. Railway police had to be stationed outside "Europeans Only" coaches to maintain order an prevent people forcing themselves into prohibited sections of the train.
demonstrations apartheid railways race discrimination cape town (south africa)

Authors

Gay's Photo Service photographer

Format
black-and-white-photographs
Published in
South Africa
Series
Independent Newspapers Archive

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