the National Party was re-elected in 1953. They made even harder laws. One of them, the Bantu Education t, controlled black education. In the past, most schools for blacks were run by religious people called missionaries. Now se missionary schools would be closed. All schools would This way the Government. directly by the controlled Government knew that young blacks were not being taught about freedom and equality. The new law made people angry Africa over At first, blacks did not let their children go to the new hools. Slowly, however, blacks decided that bad schools were tter than no schools. Once again, the ANC were not able to stop another government action. But the new schools did not work. The children who went to them grew up even than their parents in the same year, the ANC had a new idea. Working with other groups, they planned a Congress of the People. They wanted to create a list of rights called a 'Freedom Charter The ANC and other groups could use the Freedom Charter to ork together for a new South Africa. The ANC asked more than two hundred organisations to d people to a planning conference in March 1954. At the nference, the groups decided they would collect ideas from They were asked questions like, 'If you could ke the laws, what would you do? and "How would you make Africa a happy place to be?" Many of the answers were collected in secret meetings.