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Albert Luthuli

South African anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Albert John Luthuli was born in 1898 at the Solusi Mission Station in Rhodesia, the youngest of three children.[1] Because of his involvement in the Defiance Campaign as Natal ANC president, the government gave Luthuli an ultimatum to resign as chief or leave the ANC; he refused, and in November 1952 he was removed from his chieftainship.[2]

Quick Facts

Office
President of the African National Congress
Took office
December 1952
Left office
21 July 1967
Deputy
Nelson Mandela (1952–1958), Oliver Tambo (1958–1967)
Predecessor
James Moroka
Successor
Oliver Tambo

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

He attended the Ohlange Institute, founded by John Dube, and later transferred to Edendale, where he graduated with a teaching degree in 1917.[3][4] In 1935, Luthuli established the Zulu Language and Cultural Society to preserve valuable aspects of Zulu culture.[5] Luthuli was elected president of the Natal ANC in 1951 and led the Natal branch during the Defiance Campaign of 1952.[6][7] Luthuli and his mother left Rhodesia and came back to South Africa around 1908 or 1909, settling on a farm in the Vryheid district of Northern Natal.[3]

On 30 May 1953, Luthuli received a one-year banning order; after that ban expired, in mid-1954 he was served new orders confining him to Groutville for two years, until July 1956.[8][9]

What the cited sources add

Historian Shula Marks stated that the primary goal of the Zulu Language and Cultural Society was to secure government recognition of the Zulu royal family as official leaders.[5] The Natal Native Teachers' Association opposed Charles Loram's proposal that Africans be educated in "practical functions" and left to "develop along their own lines"[10] The Zulu Language and Cultural Society collapsed in 1946 after receiving grants from the South African Native Affairs Department.[11] Until 1953, Luthuli was the sole black representative sitting on the central board for cane growers.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vinson 2018, p. 15; Woodson 1986, p. 345; Couper 2010, p. 8; Vinson 2018, p. 15 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Pillay 2012, p. 7; Vinson 2018, p. 15; Pillay 2012, p. 7; Legum 1968, p. 54; Vinson 2018, p. 15 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Luthuli 1962, p. 24 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Luthuli 1962, p. 24; Vinson 2018, p. 15; Luthuli 1962, p. 24; Benson 1963, p. 4; Luthuli 1962, p. 24; Benson 1963, p. 4; Vinson 2018, p. 15 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Couper 2010, p. 8 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Pillay 2012, p. 7; Couper 2010, p. 8; Vinson 2018, p. 15; Couper 2010, p. 8; Couper 2010, p. 8; Pillay 2012, p. 7; Vinson 2018, p. 15; Benson 1963, p. 4 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Benson 1963, p. 4; Pillay 2012, p. 7; Couper 2010, p. 8; Luthuli 1962, p. 24; Benson 1963, p. 4; Benson 1963, p. 4; Couper 2010, p. 8; Pillay 2012, p. 7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vinson 2018, p. 15; Legum 1968, p. 54; Vinson 2018, p. 15; Couper 2010, p. 8 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vinson 2018, p. 15; Pillay 2012, p. 7; Benson 1963, p. 4 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Couper 2010, p. 8; Couper 2010, p. 8 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Albert Luthuli" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Marks 1989, p. 217 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Albert Luthuli (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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