What is Albert Lutuli?
'''Albert John Luthuli''' (1898 – 21 July 1967) was a [[South Africa]]n anti-[[apartheid]] activist, traditional leader, and [[politician]] who was the President-General of the [[African National Congress]] from 1952 until his death in 1967. He was born to a [[Zulu people|Zulu]] family at a [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]] mission in [[Bulawayo]]. He went to his family's ancestral home of Groutville, in the [[Colony of Natal]] in 1908 to go to school under the care of his uncle. After [[Graduation|graduating]] from high school with a teaching degree, He went a small school in Natal where he was the only teacher. Then he went to [[Adams College]]. He got a Higher Teacher's Diploma and became a teacher there - one of their first [[Africa]]n teachers. He was the secretary of the Natal Native Teachers' Association, and then its president. In 1935 when he was elected chief of the [[Umvoti River Reserve]] in Groutville. He joined the African National Congress in 1944. In 1952 he led the Defiance Campaign to protest against the [[pass laws]]. He was deposed by the [[South African government]] as chief. He was elected President-General of the ANC. He was [[nonviolence|against the use of violence]]. In 1961 he was awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Benson|first=Mary|title=Chief Albert Lutuli of South Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZIowAAAAIAAJ|date=1963|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lutuli, Albert}} [[Category:Nobel Peace Prize winners]] [[Category:1898 births]] [[Category:1967 deaths]] [[Category:South African politicians]] [[Category:South African anti-apartheid activists]]