Kenneth Wilburn's Paper:

• "Revolution in South Africa: Albert John Luthuli, Rolihlahla Nelson Dalibunga Mandela, and the African National Congress", Department of History, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; selected recommended readings, films and a glossary are attached

Web Sites:

• The African National Congress, the ANC is the majority party of South Africa
• Congress of South African Trade Unions, COSATU promotes workers rights and is allied with the ANC
• South African Communist Party, long allied with the ANC to oppose apartheid

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: 17 May 2024