Sisulu, Walter

LC control no.	n 88218580
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Sisulu, Walter *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
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)