| LC control no. | n 97110738 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fischer, Bram, 1908-1975 |
| Variant(s) | Fischer, Abram, 1908-1975 Fischer, Braam, 1908-1975 |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Birth date | 1908-04-23 |
| Death date | 1975-05-08 |
| Place of birth | Bloemfontein (South Africa) |
| Place of death | Bloemfontein (South Africa) |
| Affiliation | Grey College National Union of South African Students Communist Party of South Africa University of Oxford South African Institute of Race Relations |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Political activists |
| Found in | Bram Fischer, 1998: CIP data sheet (b. 1908; d. 1975) LC data base, 11-03-97 (hdg.: Fischer, Braam, 1908- ) Dict. of African biog. (Fischer, Bram (Abram), 1908-1975) Meredith, M. Fischer's choice, c2002: t.p. (Bram Fischer) p. 9 (b. April 23, 1908) p. 154 (d. May 8, 1975) Herauts de la liberteĢ, 197-?: t.p. (Abram Fischer) p. 29 (South African attorney; convicted of treason) ZAR.co.za website, Biographies, Special South Africans, viewed Dec. 5, 2013 (Bram Fischer, revolutionary, 23 Apr. 1908-8 May 1975; b. into Afrikaner family; Rhodes scholar to Oxford; rejected traditional South African views on race relations, joined the Communist Party of South Africa while practicing as a corporate lawyer; led defense of Nelson Mandela at Rivonia trial, 1963; disbarred in 1965; arrested 1966, sentenced to life in prison; released a few months before his death of cancer) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Fischer, Bram; Abram Fischer; lawyer, antiapartheid activist; born 23 April 1908 in Bloemfontein, South Africa; attended school at Grey College; became the first nationalist prime minister of the National Union of South African Students Student Parliament (1929); won a Rhodes Scholarship, which took him to Oxford University (1932); took up Joint Council work; was active in the South African Institute of Race Relations; joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA); was elected to the Johannesburg District Committee of the CPSA and by 1945 to the Central Committee; during the 1950s and 1960s, his key contributions were the defense in two major political trials - Treason Trial and the Rivonia Trial; in 1965 he was himself arrested, sentenced to life imprisonment. and spent nearly the rest of his days in Pretoria Central Prison.; died May 1975 in Bloemfontein, South Africa) |
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