Revolution in South Africa: Albert John Luthuli,
Rolihlahla Nelson Dalibunga Mandela, and the African National Congress
A Paper and Web Site Created for Public School Teachers
Revolutions: Impact and Implications
The 33rd Annual ECU Symposium on History and the Social Studies
26 September 1997
First Online Edition: 27 September 1997
Last Revision: 17 July 2021
Kenneth Wilburn
Department of History
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina
United States 27858
Kenneth Wilburn's Paper:
Web Sites:
Document Sites:
- The Road to Freedom is Via the Cross,
the text of a public statement by Luthuli in November 1952 when the Government dismissed him from his position as Chief for
refusing to resign from the African National Congress
- The Freedom Charter, adopted at the
Congress of the People, Kliptown (near Johannesburg), 26 June 1955; forms the basis for the creation of post-apartheid South Africa
- Luthuli's
Nobel acceptance at Oslo University, 10 December 1961
- "What I Would Do If I Were Prime Minister", extracts from
an article published in Ebony (February, 1962; previously published on 2 December 1961)
- The Struggle is My life, Mandela's press statement, 26 June 1961;
given shortly after the Treason Trial
- "I am Prepared to Die", Mandela's statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial,
Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964; presented via YouTube
- Address to the Rally in Cape Town, an important Mandela speech
shortly after his release from prison, 11 February 1990
- Mandela's Nobel Peace Prize Address,
Oslo, Norway, 10 December 1993; video and text
- The ANC Women's League, South African History Online
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First Online Edition: 27 September 1997
Last Revised: 12 July 2021