Xuma, Alfred B. (Alfred Bitini), 1893-1962

LC control no.	n 99024211
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Xuma, Alfred B. (Alfred Bitini), 1893-1962 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Xuma, Alfred Bitini, 1893-1962 Xuma, A. B. (Alfred Bitini), 1893-1962
Biography/History note	Individual was a political activist.
Located	South Africa
Birth date	1893 1890
Death date	1962
Place of birth	Transkei (South Africa)
Place of death	Johannesburg (South Africa)
Field of activity	Black nationalism
Affiliation	University of Minnesota Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) University of London African National Congress
Profession or occupation	Politicians Physicians
Found in	Alfred B. Xuma, 2000: CIP galley (Alfred Bitini Xuma (1893-1962); first western-trained African physician to practice medicine in Johannesburg) A.B. Xuma, 2012: p. viii (Alfred Bitini Xuma) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed April 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Xuma, Alfred Bitini; political figure, black nationalist, political activist; born in 1890 in Transkei, South Africa; BS from the University of Minnesota (1920); MD from Northwestern University's medical school (1926); Diploma of Public Health at the University of London's School of Hygiene (1938); first western-trained African physician to practice medicine in Johannesburg, South Africa; helped lead an ultimately unsuccessful effort to preserve African voting rights in the Cape (1935-1936); became a respected leader of African women's organizations in Johannesburg and president of the African National Congress (ANC); reinvigorating the Congress by opening a national headquarters, hiring organizers, raising funds, modernizing the constitution, recruiting youths and intellectuals (1940's); fought the South African government's plan to incorporate South-West Africa (Namibia) into its territory, which became one of the greatest political victories; died in 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa)