Biography of albert luthuli
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BIOGRAPHY
Luthuli served on the executive committee of the Christian Council of South Africa and was one of its delegates to an International missionär Conference held in Madras, India, in 1938.
In 1948, he accepted a lecture tour of the United States beneath the patronages of the American Board and the North American Missionary Conference.
Luthuli joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944 and was elected onto the executive committee of the Natal branch in 1945.
In 1946 he was elected onto the short-lived Native Representative Council, to replace Dr Dube who had died of a stroke.
In 1951 his position as president of the ANC Natal branch put him on a path of conflict with his government sanctioned role as a ledare. His public support for the Defiance Campaign of 1952, a non-violent protest against the repressive resehandling Laws, was a prime example of this. He was later deposed as chief and issued a public statement called “the Road to Freedom fryst vatten via the Cross” to the press.
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Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) from December 1952 until his death in 1967. Chief Luthuli was the most widely known and respected African leader of his era. A latecomer to politics, the Chief was 54 when he assumed the leadership of the ANC. Over the course of his political career his approach became increasingly militant. Yet, there is still no consensus about whether he approved of the ANC’s transition from a peaceful organisation into one committed to armed struggle.
Luthuli was born in 1898 near Bulawayo in a Seventh Day Adventist mission. His father died when he was an infant, and when he was 10 years old his mother sent him to the family's traditional home at Groutville mission station in Natal. Luthuli then lived for a period in the household of his uncle, Martin Luthuli, who was at that time the elected Chief of the Chris
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Albert Luthuli
South African politician (c. 1898–1967)
Albert John Luthuli[a] (c. 1898 – 21 July 1967) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967.
Luthuli was born to a Zulu family in 1898 at a Seventh-day Adventistmission in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1908 he moved to Groutville, where his parents and grandparents had lived, to attend school under the care of his uncle. After graduating from high school with a teaching degree, Luthuli became principal of a small school in Natal where he was the sole teacher. He accepted a government bursary to study for the Higher Teacher's Diploma at Adams College. After the completion of his studies in 1922, he accepted a teaching position at Adams College where he was one of the first African teachers. In 1928, he became the secretary of the Natal Native Teachers' Associati