| LC control no. | n 88218580 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sisulu, Walter |
| Variant(s) | Sisulu, Walter Max |
| Biography/History note | Individual was a political and anti-apartheid activist. |
| Located | South Africa |
| Birth date | 1912-05-18 |
| Death date | 2003-05-05 |
| Place of birth | Eastern Cape (South Africa) |
| Place of death | South Africa |
| Field of activity | Anti-apartheid movements |
| Affiliation | African National Congress African National Congress. Youth League Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa) |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Amistad Research Center for American Committee on Africa Records, 1948-1988 (Walter Sisulu) New York Times, 5/18/87 (Walter Sisulu, age 75, one of South Africa's best known political prisoners and veteran of African National Congress; in prison for 24 yrs. serving life sentence with ANC chief Nelson Mandela and 6 others; husband of Albertina Sisulu; father of Zwelakhe Sisulu, ed. of New Nation, and Max Sisulu who left South Africa in 1963) His The road to liberation, 1990: t.p. (Walter Sisulu, chair, Internal Leadership Committee, African National Congress) Dickie, J. Who's who in Africa, 1973: p. 440 (Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu, b. 5/18/1912 in the Transkei) Beeld, May 6, 2003 (Sisulu sterf; d. May 5, 2003) Walter Sisulu, 2008: page 7 (Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu was born on 18 May 1912 in Qutubeni, a village in the Engcobo District of the Eastern Cape) page 41 (Sisulu died on 5 May 2003) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Sisulu, Walter; political activist, political prisoner, politician, anti-apartheid activist; born 1912 in Eastern Cape, South Africa; joined African National Congress (ANC) (1940); treasurer of ANC Youth League; elected ANC secretary general (1949); convicted under Suppression of Communism Act (1952); one of 156 antiapartheid activists charged with treason (1956); acquitted and co-founded Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) (1961); convicted again of treason and sentenced to life in prison on Robben Island, South Africa (1964); released (1989), elected ANC deputy president (1991) and resigned (1994); died May 2003 in South Africa) |
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