Keeping the faith: About 3,000 Metro blacks carry lighted candles at Harbourfront to show symbolic support for blacks fighting apartheid in South Africa

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Keeping the faith: About 3,000 Metro blacks carry lighted candles at Harbourfront to show symbolic support for blacks fighting apartheid in South Africa

Date8/3/1988

Names

Power, Peter (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

FormatPicture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Keeping the faith: About 3;000 Metro blacks carry lighted candles at Harbourfront to show symbolic support for blacks fighting apartheid in South Africa.

Subject

Medium

Photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Object NumberTSPA_0011994F

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