Albert Lutuli

Albert John Luthuli (1898 – 21 July 1967) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who was the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967.

He was born to a Zulu family at a Seventh-day Adventist mission in Bulawayo. He went to his family's ancestral home of Groutville, in the Colony of Natal in 1908 to go to school under the care of his uncle. After graduating from high school with a teaching degree, He went a small school in Natal where he was the only teacher. Then he went to Adams College. He got a Higher Teacher's Diploma and became a teacher there - one of their first African teachers. He was the secretary of the Natal Native Teachers' Association, and then its president.

In 1935 when he was elected chief of the Umvoti River Reserve in Groutville. He joined the African National Congress in 1944. In 1952 he led the Defiance Campaign to protest against the pass laws. He was deposed by the South African government as chief. He was elected President-General of the ANC. He was against the use of violence. In 1961 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Albert Lutuli Media

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  The former site of Solusi Mission Station, which is now Solusi University.

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  Pastor and Deacons at a Groutville Church in 1900.

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  John Dube's memorial outside of the Ohlange Institute.

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  Albert Luthuli in the late 1920s.

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  Z. K. Matthews served as president of the Natal Native Teachers' Association prior to Luthuli.

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  John Dube served as the Zulu Language and Cultural Society's first president.

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  Prime Minister Hertzog passed a set of bills that negatively affected and restricted the African population.

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  The nonviolent tactics used during the Defiance Campaign were inspired by Gandhi.

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  The contents of the Freedom Charter written on the walls of the Palace of Justice in Pretoria.

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  Luthuli's name was suggested for the Nobel Peace Prize following the start of the Treason Trial.