Baard, Frances, 1908-1997

found: 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)

found: 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)