HIST 439 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Oliver Tambo, Rivonia Trial, Liliesleaf Farm
Document Summary
Liberation movements in the 1950s-1960s: dreams, despair, and turns to armed struggle. Anc youth league"s program of action becomes official anc policy, 1949: anc was still led by older men (president james moroka, 1949-1952; president. Albert luthuli, 1952-1967: but energetic younger people were setting the agenda for the anc, which finally became a mass organization (100,000 members by early 1950s, in 1952, nelson mandela was president of the transvaal branch of the anc the. Apartheid bannings : mandela and many other leaders, including anc president luthuli, were banned after 1952, banning: you could not legally travel outside of a limited district or attend meetings, mandela and other banned leaders kept planning secretly, however . The congress alliance: anc: african members, saic: indian south african members, coloured people"s organisation: people classified as coloured (mixed-race, congress of democrats: whites, many of whom were in underground south african.
