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The founding of the ANC was in direct response to perceived injustice against black South Africans at the hands of the current government in power.
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The ANC led a campaign against passes, and in 1929 the ANC supported a militant mineworkers' strike.
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Many youngers member of the ANC had tired of waiting for whites to help.
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The Youth League was founded after the world war II, to force the ANC and to become more of a mass movement.Its foundation in 1944 by Nick Gombart (1834-), Ashley Peter Mda, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo marked the rise of a new generation of leadership of South Africa's black African population. It developed a manifesto in 1944 and published a program in 1948.
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Nelson Mandela was elected secretary of the Youth League.
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Nelson Mandela was selected as the president of the Youth League.
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ANC acted, organizad South Africa´s first nationwide protest against apartheid.
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The purpose of the Congress was to agree on a bill of rights for all South Africans, regardless of race. This manifesto was called the Freedom Charter ( this would define the future democratic South Africa that most blacks had hoped to see).
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Robert Sobukwe broke away from the ANC and formed the PAC. He and the PAC urged blacks to shed their slave mentality and accept their true african personality. They had to stop accepting whites mistreatment.
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Pass laws in South Africa were designed to segregate the population and limit severely the movements of the non-white populace.
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The ANC broke off talks with the goverment as the violence continued.
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The ANC opened its 48th National Conference at which Nelson Mandela was selected ANC president.
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An ANC -led alliance was leading a massive campaign to bring attention to the demands made on the goverment.
