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JUNE 16 SOLIDARITY APPEAL TO WHITES

Theme: The Youth take charge: the Soweto Uprising of June 1976


Call Number: 0235
Identifier: AL2446_0235
Title: JUNE 16 SOLIDARITY APPEAL TO WHITES
Date: 1986
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
United Democratic Front- UDF;
Solidarity;
June 16;
Call to whites campaign 1986;
Mobilisation;
solidarity;
16 June 1976
Description: This poster is silkscreened black, produced by JODAC, Johannesburg. This poster called white South Africans to join black South Africans in commemorating the deaths of blacks students in the June 1976 uprising. The text reads: "JUNE 16 SOLIDARITY APPEAL TO WHITES : OBSERVE AS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY".Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 40 (number 65) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It is also included in the SAHA virtual exhibition - 'The Future is Ours: Commemorating Youth in the Struggle'.
Creator: Produced by the Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee (JODAC)
Type: Poster
Format: Access image – jpeg
Preservation image – tiff
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: Copyright of some materials are held by individual postermakers/organisations. Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for more information.
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