| LC control no. | n 85320082 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Joseph, Helen |
| Variant(s) | Fennell, Helen Beatrice May |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Associated place | Hyderabad (India) |
| Birth date | 1905-04-08 |
| Death date | 1992-12-25 |
| Place of birth | Midhurst (England) Sussex (England) |
| Place of death | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Affiliation | King's College London Federation of South African Women South Africa. Air Force South African Congress of Democrats |
| Profession or occupation | Political activists Educators Social workers |
| Found in | Her Side by side, c1986: CIP t.p. (Helen Joseph) book jkt. (b. 1905) LC data base, 9/22/86 (hdg.: Joseph, Helen) Helen Joseph, 1995: t.p., etc. (born Helen Beatrice May Fennell in Midhurst, Sussex, England; received an Honour's degree in English from the Univ. of London in 1927; asst. principal at the Mahbubia School for Girls in Hyderabad, India; as a leading political activist in South Africa, she played key roles in the Congress of Democrats, Federation of South African Women, UDF, and the ANC; d. December 1992) Helen Joseph, 2003: page 28 (Helen Fennell was born in England, 1905; arrived in South Africa in 1930. Helen Joseph died at the age of 87 in 1992) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed June 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Joseph, Helen; educator, social worker, antiapartheid activist; born 08 April 1905 in Sussex, England; degree in English from King's College, the University of London (1927); taught at the Mahbubia School for Girls in Hyderabad, India (1927-1930); was a Welfare and Information Officer in the South African Air Force, a secretary of the Medical Aid Society of the Transvaal Clothing Industry, a founding member of the National Executive Committee of the South African Congress of Democrats (1953); was pivotal in the formation of the pro-African National Congress (ANC) Federation of South Africa Women (FSAW) (1954); was charged with high treason by the apartheid regime (1956); authored three books: If This Be Treason, Tomorrow's Sun, and an autobiography Side by Side (1963, 1966, 1987); was awarded highest honor, the Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe Medal by the ANC (1992); died 25 December 1992 in Johannesburg, South Africa) |
| Associated language | eng |
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