Mary Manning
speaker
199 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Mary Manning’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they had every excuse in the world.
I suppose things like, I mean, a black person, they have to have a passbook.
So they had to travel everywhere with this book, this identification book.
They couldn't travel into certain areas.
They were only allowed to work in certain jobs.
They weren't allowed to go into cafes or anything.
They weren't allowed to intermarry.
There was loads and loads of different rules and different classifications of what people could do there.
And it was just so, like, against human rights.
The longer we were on strike and the more we learned, the more determined we became.
Like we literally had people who said, oh, he wouldn't blame me touching him.
I wouldn't touch him if a black person touched him either.
We heard of priests who were in the pulpit telling people to go into the store, that what we were doing was hurting the black people in South Africa.
We had people who were arguing with us.
We had a lot of, at the time, there was a fair few white South Africans who were over in Ireland are coming.
This was not in one day, this was over probably months.
And they'd always make a point of coming up to the picket line and, you know, kind of berating us and telling us what we didn't know what we were talking about.
No, I had personally never met, and none of us had, none of the strikers had.
Now, there were black people living in Ireland, but I mean, at the time, a lot of black people were studying in colleges and stuff, which wasn't the kind of environment that we all went around in.
He was an ex-Trade Union leader.
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