Hayman, Ruth (d 1981)

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): ICS 30

Title: Hayman, Ruth (d 1981)

Date(s): c.1950 - c.1968 (mainly 1963-1966)

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 1 box

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Administrative/Biographical history: Ruth Hayman was a lawyer in South Africa, and a campaiger for racial equality and justice. After she was banned for her work in South Africa, she settled in North London, and in 1969 set up the pioneering organisation, Neighbourhood English Classes, to help newly arrived immigrants settle into the UK. In 1977 she was a founding member, and honorary secretary of the National Association for the Teaching of English as a Second Language to Adults. After her death in 1981 the Ruth Hayman Trust was established in her memory.

Archival history: Papers deposited at ICS by Ruth Hayman, date unknown.

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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: Papers of Ruth Hayman on politics and human rights in South Africa, c 1950-c 1968; comprising file of press cuttings on law cases in Eastern Districts, mainly under the Suppression of Communism Act, or for membership of the African National Congress and the Pan African Congress; file of judgements in cases of Roly Israel Arenstein, Helen Beatrice Mary Joseph, Dennis Vincent Brutus, Terence Vigors Rait Beard, Lancelot Makgothi, Isaac Heyman, Phillip Sello and Violet May Weinberg under the Suppression of Communism Act, 1963-1966; legal papers mainly counsel's opinions on the Suppression of Communism Act, 1965-1966; papers on Johannesburg City Council Election campaign, in which Hayman stood unsuccessfully as an Independent Candidate in Berea; file of legal opinions and judgements, mainly relating to individuals served with Banning Notices under the Suppression of Communism Act, 1962-1965; paper by D V Cowan 'Parliamentary sovereignty and the entrenched sections of the South Africa Act', 1957; file of papers on case of Walter Vannet Hain, Adeline Florence Hain, and Fatima Meer, who had been served with Banning Notices under the Suppression of Communism Act, 1963., 1976.

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System of arrangement: 7 files, as described above.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002

Interest: Black

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Subjects

Anti-apartheid movements

Racial discrimination

Racial prejudice

Administration of justice

Courts

Political doctrines

Collectivism

Communism

Human rights

Civil and political rights

Interethnic relations

Racial segregation

Apartheid

Personal/Corporate names

ASello, Phillip, fl 1965, political activist in South Africa

Heyman, Isaac, fl 1965, political activist in South Africa

Makgothi, Lancelot, fl 1965, political activist in South Africa

Beard, Terence Vigors Rait, fl 1963-1965, anti-apartheid activist

Brutus, Dennis Victor, fl 1963, anti-apartheid activist

Arenstein, Roly Israel, fl 1963, anti-apartheid activist

Joseph, Helen, 1905-1992, anti-apartheid activist

Hayman, Ruth, d 1981, civil rights lawyer and teacher

Weinberg, Violet May, fl 1965, political activist in South Africa

Cowan, D V, fl 1957, author

Hain, Walter Vannet, fl 1963-1965, anti-apartheid activist

Hain, Adeline Florence, fl 1963-1965, anti-apartheid activist

Meer, Fatima, fl 1976, political activist in South Africa

Places

Southern Africa

South Africa

Johannesburg

Berea