'Mandela 1955-1960', photocopies of correspondence and press and journal articles and other papers relating to Mandela, political parties, the Freedom Charter approved by the ANC annual conference in 1956 and the Treason Trial of 1956-1961
MS. Sampson dep. 110
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
'Mandela 1955-1960', photocopies of correspondence and press and journal articles and other papers relating to Mandela, political parties, the Freedom Charter approved by the ANC annual conference in 1956 and the Treason Trial of 1956-1961
Shelfmark
MS. Sampson dep. 110
Summary
From a bundle entitled 'Mandela '55–'61'. Includes:
photocopies of articles from the journals Liberation and Fighting Talk, 1953-1959, mainly by Mandela
photocopies of correspondence between Mandela and the Minister of Justice about his confinement to Johannesburg, 1956, typescript
photocopy of an extract from a letter from Albert Luthuli, President of the ANC, to Mary Hooper, [ANC fundraiser,] responding to suggestions that the left-wing stance of the ANC's lawyers, Messrs. Mandela and Tambo, may be unacceptable to potential donors and damaging in a court of law, and relating to other matters, 1956, typescript
Counter Attack, the bulletin of the South African Congress of Democrats, 8.6 (Nov.-Dec. 1958)
Date
1953-1997
Language
English
Physical extent
1 folder
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Collection contents
Material relating to publications
Books
Material relating to Mandela: The Authorised Biography (London: HarperCollins, 1999)
'Mandela 1955-1960', photocopies of correspondence and press and journal articles and other papers relating to Mandela, political parties, the Freedom Charter approved by the ANC annual conference in 1956 and the Treason Trial of 1956-1961
