Albert Luthuli. Robert Trent Vinson

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      Albert Luthuli

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       Albert Luthuli

      by Robert Trent Vinson

      Albert Luthuli

      Robert Trent Vinson

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       Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction: Who Was Albert Luthuli?

       1. The Education of a Zulu Christian

       2. Chief of the People

       3. The Nonviolent, Multiracial Politics of Defiance

       4. Apartheid Violence and Armed Self-Defense

       Coda

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       Illustrations

       Class photo, probably Adams College, c. 1920

       Luthuli with Congregationalist minister Posselt Gumede and first ANC president John Dube

       Luthuli in the United States

       Defiance Campaign

       New ANC president Luthuli gives the “Africa” sign to delegates at the annual national ANC conference in Queenstown, 1953

       The original 156 defendants in the South African Treason Trial

       Luthuli celebrates his daughter’s wedding, 1958 Multiracial mass meeting, Cape Town, 1959

       Albert and Nokuhanya Luthuli feeding their chickens at home, 1961

       Albert and Nokukhanya Luthuli feted at Oslo, Norway

       Albert Luthuli receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, December 1961

       Luthuli at his Groutville grocery shop, 1964

       U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy visits Luthuli, monitored by South African security police, June 1966

       Funeral of Albert Luthuli, Groutville, 1967