| LC control no. | n 80103728 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Chilembwe, John, -1915 |
| Variant(s) | Chilembwe, John, d. 1915 |
| Associated country | Malawi |
| Birth date | 1871~ |
| Death date | 1915 |
| Place of birth | Chiradzulu District (Malawi) |
| Place of death | Malawi |
| Affiliation | Providence Industrial Mission (Malawi) Native Industrial Union (Organization) Baptist Church |
| Profession or occupation | Missionaries Nationalists Revolutionaries Clergy |
| Found in | Shepperson, G. Independent African, 1958. The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Chilembwe, John; missionary, nationalist, revolutionary, Baptist clergyperson; born c.1871 in Chiradzulu District, Sangano, Malawi. He received his initial education from Scottish Presbyterian missionary (1890s). He also attended a small African American theological college in Lynchburg, Virginia (1897). He returned to southern Nyasaland as ordained Baptist minister (1900) and founded the Providence Industrial Mission in Chiradzulu; he was chairman of the Native Industrial Union (1909). He led an armed insurrection and was killed; 15 January is commemorated as John Chilembwe Day in Malawi. He died 1915 in Malawi) |
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