| LC control no. | n 92100541 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bol, Manute |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19621016 |
| Death date | 20100619 |
| Place of birth | Gogrial (Sudan) |
| Place of death | Charlottesville (Va.) |
| Affiliation | Washington Bullets (Basketball team) Golden State Warriors (Basketball team) National Basketball Association Sudan Sunrise Ring True Foundation Sudan Relief Redemption Association |
| Profession or occupation | Basketball players Philanthropists Human rights workers |
| Found in | Montville, L. Manute, c1993: CIP t.p. (Manute Bol) galley (professional basketball player, orginally from Uganda) New York times WWW site, June 21, 2010 (in obituary published June 19: Manute Bol; d. Saturday [June 19, 2010], Charlottesville, Va., aged 47; towering Dinka tribesman who left southern Sudan to become one of the best shot blockers in the history of American basketball, then returned to his homeland to try to heal the wounds of a long, bloody civil war) African American National Biography, accessed December 22, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bol, Manute; basketball player, humanitarian, human rights activist; born 16 October 1962 in Gogrial, Sudan; drafted by the Washington Bullets, becoming anestablished shot blocker and a fan favorite (1985); traded to the Golden State Warriors (1988); led the NBA in blocked shots (1988-89); traded to the Philadelphia 76 ers (1990-1993); ended his NBA career with Golden State (1994-1995); worked for human rights organizations such as Sudan Sunrise, the Ring True Foundation, and the Sudan Relief and Redemption Association; died 19 June 2010 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States) |
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