Word: luthuli
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...Beloved Country) Paton, raised $600,000 for a defense fund, hired a brilliant battery of lawyers and kept most of the defendants going on a dole of $30.80 a month. As the proceedings dragged on, the prosecution gradually dropped charges against most of the defendants, including Chief Albert Luthuli, president of the now outlawed African National Congress, and Zachariah Matthews, onetime Henry W. Luce Professor of World Christianity at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. Left standing trial were only 28 small-fry defendants, and the only real evidence against them was that they had helped draw...
World's Polecat. Nonwhites reacted delightedly to what they saw as a crushing Verwoerd defeat. On trains and buses carrying them from their "locations" to jobs in Johannesburg, Africans cried to each other. "Marvelous!" "Wonderful!" In house arrest at Groutville, 35 miles from Durban. Tribal Chieftain Albert Luthuli was "overjoyed" to know that "the Commonwealth stands for emancipation of all people everywhere, and especially in a former British colony." An exultant black told a rally, "South Africa has been publicly declared the polecat of the world...
...African Congress, a splinter group of Chief Albert Luthuli's leading African National Congress, decided to test its strength among African workers by calling for the massive demonstration against the "pass laws," the symbol of White rule...
Sharpeville marks the turning point in South Africa's history. It shows that the extremist Pan Africanist Congress has successfully challenged the position of moderate Chief Albert Luthuli as leader of the Black political forces...
...Luthuli, who is aging, may get the Nobel Peace prize in recognition of his patient non-violent leadership against apartheid. But, in the republican days that lie ahead, his appeals for calm and reason are likely to be ignored by the majority of Africans...