The Women Who Loved And Fought Alongside Nelson Mandela - Page 5
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Clarke Gail Baines
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi
Ngoyi, who worked alongside Mandela, was the first woman to be elected to the executive board of the ANC and helped to create the Federation of South African Women. Ngoyi also at one point was the president of the Women’s League and helped lead a protest against making black South Africans carry passbooks (like a passport, but it told you where you could travel and work, etc.) everywhere they went. Her activism had her thrown in jail on many occasions (including one time where she was in solitary confinement for 71 days) and banned from many places, but it would also make her something of a legend. Ngoyi would go on to have Strijdom Square (where the passbook march happened) named after her, as well as a patrol vessels named in her honor.
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