Baard, Frances, 1908-1997

LC control no.	n 88059859
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Baard, Frances, 1908-1997 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	South Africa
Birth date	1908~
Death date	1997
Place of birth	Kimberley (South Africa)
Place of death	South Africa
Affiliation	African National Congress. Women's League South African Congress of Trade Unions Federation of South African Women African Food and Canning Workers Union (South Africa) Zenzeleni Community Center (South Africa)
Profession or occupation	Labor leaders Civil rights workers
Found in	Her My spirit is not banned, 1986: t.p. (Frances Baard) introd. (black South African, trade unionist, political activist, women's leader) p. 9 (b. Oct. 1908) Dictionary of African Biography, December 8, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Baard, Frances; labor leader, women's rights advocate, antiapartheid activist; born c. 1908 in Kimberley, South Africa; attended Perseverance Training School (1918); was a domestic worker, Port Elizabeth (1939); elected organizing secretary for the African Food and Canning Workers Union (1948); was involved in the ANC Women's League; member of the National Executive Committee of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU); founding member of the Federation of South African Women (now known as FEDSAW) (1954); arrested in 1955 in the famous Treason Trial, along with Nelson Mandela and other antiapartheid campaigners (1955); in 1963 was sent back to prison for another five years, her house had been appropriated, and her children thrown into the street; after release from prison she worked for in a textile factory; resumed her political activities against apartheid when the United Democratic Front was organized (1980s); launched a day-care center, Zenzeleni Community Center; Kimberley's Diamantveld District Municipality was renamed the Frances Baard District Municipality in 2001; died 1997 in South Africa)