mda48. Committee of 100 Mandela demonstration

Leaflet publicising a walk and silent vigil in support of Nelson Mandela on 14 June 1964, after he and the other Rivonia trialists were sentenced to live imprisonment on 12 June. It asked people to walk from Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park to the South African Embassy and hold a 30-minute silent vigil outside the Embassy. The protest was organised by the London section of the Committee of 100, set up to organise direct action against the British government’s decision to build a nuclear bomb.