Abdurahman, Abdullah, 1872-1940
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Wellington (South Africa)
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found: Dr. A. Abdurahman, 2002:p. 9, etc. (Abdullah Abdurahman, b. in Wellington on 12 Dec. 1872; d. 1940)
found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed October 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Abdurahman, Abdullah; medical doctor, eclectic physician, political figure; born 12 December 1872 in Wellington, South Africa; graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow (1893); the first black person to be elected to the Cape Town City Council (1904); chair of the Streets and Drainage Committee (1923-1937); the first Coloured person to be elected to the Cape Provincial Council (1914); elected president of the African Political Organization (APO) (1905); was instrumental in the establishment of the Trafalgar High School, the first to offer secondary education to Coloured students (1911); played a role in the founding of the Teachers League of South Africa (1913); participated in South African Native and Coloured People's Delegation to Britain to protest the racially discriminatory clauses in the draft South Africa Act (1909); jointly convene four Non-European Conferences with D. D. T. Jabavu between (1927-1934) to mobilize opposition to prime minister J. B. M. Hertzog's segregationist policies; the only black member of the Wilcox Commission (appointed in 1934); president Nelson Mandela awarded him postmortem the Order for Meritorious Service, class I (gold) (1999); died 20 February 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa)
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2003-02-04: new
2015-03-18: revised
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