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Albert Luthuli, Albert Lutuli, (born 1898, Rhodesia—died July 21, 1967, Stanger, S.Af.), Zulu chief and president of the African National Congress (1952–67). Trained at a mission school, Luthuli taught and served a small community as chief before being elected ANC president. He was frequently imprisoned for his anti-apartheid activities. He set forth his views in Let My People Go (1962). In 1960 he became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

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The African National Congress (ANC) is a South African political party and Black nationalist organization. The party received a majority of the vote in the first election it contested, in 1994, and every one after until 2024, when its support fell to about 40 percent. It was founded in 1912 as the

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