- US MR-AAO-142
- Collection
- 1924-01-01 - 2009-12-31
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Rivonia Trial
Reddy, Enuga S.
Celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela
Part of Mandela Materials
DVD
Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation
A Captivating view of the indomitable spirit of one of the world's most fascinating figures.
Directed by Jo Menell and Angus Gibson and produced by Jonathan Demme, Edward Saxon and Jo Menell.
Total Running time: 118 minutes
Offering an intimate look at one of the world's most revered human rights figures from his childhood to his election as South Africa's first black president, the feature-length film produced by Jonathan Demme was nominated for the 1997 Academy Award® for Best Documentary.
A 26-track CD soundtrack includes South African legends Hugh Masekela, Johnny Clegg & Saluki, Vusi Mahlasela, The Manhattan Brothers, Brenda Fassie and many more. The 48-page book and National Geographic Map chronicle the political and cultural history of South Africa
CD
Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation Original Soundtrack
Evoking the rich and vibrant musical legacy of South Africa, with traditional Xhosa and Zulu folk songs, '50s township swing and jump blues, harmony trios and powerful protest songs of freedom.
Track List:
1 Robben Island Ambiance
2 Father of Our Nation - Jennifer Jones and Hugh Masekela
3 Childhood - Original Score
4 Sip N’ Fly - The African Jazz Pioneers
5 In The Queue - Original Cast Of The All African Jazz Opera “King Kong”
6 Yiyole The - Havana Swingsters
7 Pula Kgosi Seretse - The Skylarks
8 Ndenzeni Na? (What Have I Done?) - The Father Huddleston Band
9 Vuka Vuka (Get Up, Get Up) - The Manhattan Brothers
10 De Makeba - The Jazz Dazzlers
11 Lalelani - The Skylarks
12 Mandela-Madiba Original Score
13 Toyi Toyi Mix - The African National Congress Choir
14 Heavyweight - The Kalahari Surfers With Lesego Rampolokeng
15 Wars Of Old - Original Score
16 Asimbonanga (Mandela) (We Have Not Seen Him) -Johnny Clegg And Saluki
17 Family Theme - Original Score
18 Nelson Mandela - The Specials
19 Rest In Peace - Original Score
20 When You Come Back - Vusi Mahlasela
21 Transkei - Original Score
22 Guns And Pangas - The Kalahari Surfers With Shaun Naidoo
23 Sad Song - Original Score
24 Phansi Ngodlame - Babsy Mlangeni
25 Mmalo-We - Bayete And Jab Khanyile
26 Black President - Brenda Fassie
48-page Book
Telling the compelling story of the extraordinary life of Nelson Mandela is a beautiful, 48-page book filled with dozens of photos and art images, and an essay by acclaimed British journalist Robin Denselow.
Map
20” X 30” Poster Map exclusively created by the National Geographic Society
Menell, Jo
Part of Mandela Materials
Storey, Peter
National Public Broadcasting Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
National Public Radio
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
CNN
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Committee on Africa : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Committee on Africa : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Committee on Africa : [Part 4]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Part of Rivonia Trial
American Committee on Africa : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Committee on Africa : [Part 5]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Committee on Africa : [Part 6]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
United Nations Photographic Library
Part of Mandela Materials
United Nations
Part of Rivonia Trial
Gathered from various repositories and private sources to preserve records and memories of activism in the United States in support of the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s.
A search for Rivonia Trial material yields:
-Photographs of demonstrations outside the South African Consulate in New York protesting the outcome of the Rivonia Trial (from private collections and American Committee on Africa)
-Buttons: "Free Motsoaledi", "Free Kathrada" "Free Mandela", "Happy birthday Motsoaledi" (from Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa)
African Activist Archive Project
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
National Public Broadcasting Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
National Public Radio
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Southern Africa Liberation Committee
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
South African subject collection, 1941-1997
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
Menell, Jo
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Committee for Health in Southern Africa
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
CBS
Capital District Coalition against Apartheid and Racism : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Photographs and Prints Division)
Capital District Coalition against Apartheid and Racism : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
Educators against Racism and Apartheid
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Rivonia Trial
Untitled
National Public Broadcasting Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
National Public Radio
United Nations Special Committee on Policies of Apartheid
Part of Mandela Materials
AABN
Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
Kutner, Luis
Madison Anti-Apartheid Coalition
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Champaign-Urbana Coalition against Apartheid
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism records
Part of Mandela Materials
Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism
Part of Mandela Materials
Tambo, Oliver Reginald
American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Office of International Academic Affairs (University of Michigan)
Part of Mandela Materials
University of Michigan, Office of International Academic Affairs
International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa- United States Committee
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa- Actuality- Report by Connie Lawn on the arrival of the deputy president of the ANC Mr Nelson Mandela who refers to the issue of sanctions.
RECORDBC19900625
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa Actuality President George Bush of the United States speaking on relations with South Africa and the visit of Mr Nelson Mandela to the United States.
RECORDBC 19900621
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Rivonia Trial
Part of Mandela Materials
Brutus, Dennis
Joel Carlson South African legal files
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
Washington Office on Africa
Nelson Mandela Portrait Collection
Part of Mandela Materials
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Photographs and Prints Division)
Militant Photographic Collection
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa - Actuality - report by Jannie Botes on the arrival in New York of the deputy president of the African National Congress, Mr Nelson Mandela and the overwhelming reception he received. The actuality of Mr Mandela who refers to sanctions and the governor Mario Cuomo of New York praises Mr and Mrs Nelson Mandela.
RECORDBC 19900621
SABC Sound Archives
Jesse Jackson Portrait Collection
Part of Mandela Materials
Higgins, Chester
National Public Broadcasting Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
National Public Radio
South Africa: The Making of US Policy: 1962-1989
Part of Rivonia Trial
This collection provides primary source documents describing U.S. relationships to apartheid including implementation, enforcement, and violations of the U.N-sponsored sanctions against South Africa. Including the following that relate to the Rivonia Trial:
-United States Embassy (South Africa) reports that the African National Congress (ANC) was created to carry out sabotage, stating that the arrest of Nelson Mandela occurred after he planned subversive activities (1962).
-A memorandum issued by the Summit Conference of Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1963), agreeing to provide funding to help South African liberation movements and calling for the release from prison of Nelson Mandela, Robert Sobukwe and all other political prisoners.
-A memorandum on the Rivonia Trial providing biographical information on the Rivonia Trialists, and in which Nelson Mandela argues that opposition groups resorted to armed struggle only after avenues for peaceful change were blocked (1964).
-A report in which ANC and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Michael Harmel and Walter Sisulu are described as Communists, and documents presented during the Rivonia Trial are cited as evidence of the contacts between the ANC, PAC, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China (1964).
-A memorandum of conversation in which Cecil Eprile characterises black leaders like Nelson Mandela as careless and prone to bad judgment (1965).
-A cable relating to Resolution 473 of the United Nations Security Council urging South Africa to release all political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela (1980).
-Biographic sketch information on Nelson Mandela provided by the US Department of State (1983).
-A cable on the awarding of the international Simon Bolivar prize to Nelson Mandela by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (1983).
-Correspondence to the South African Ambassador to the United States, calling for the release of Nelson Mandela (1984).
- A cable about the Johannesburg Star Newspaper reports that the arrest of Nelson Mandela 25 years ago occurred after he was betrayed by a US Central Intelligence Agency agent posing as a diplomat of the United States Consulate General in Durban (1986).
- A statement in which Chester A. Crocker calls for the release of Nelson Mandela (1986).
- A report in which the US Department of State Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa asserts that the first steps taken by South Africa must be the release of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and all other political prisoners (1987).
The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library providing public access to declassified government documents obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). These are then published as declassified document sets (as this one on South Africa), are produced in microfiche, and digitised to become part of the Digital National Security Archive database which some universities subscribe to (Monash University in South Africa).
US State Department
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Part of Mandela Materials
Taitt-Mugubane, A. Leonora
Part of Mandela Materials
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Photographs and Prints Division)
Part of Rivonia Trial
National Security Archive Declassified Document Set
Part of Mandela Materials
US State Department
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Lutheran World Ministries : Office on World Community : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Lutheran World Ministries : Office on World Community : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Cornell University Divestment Movement
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
International Oil Working Group
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
MALP Nelson and Winnie Mandela Tribute Collection
Part of Mandela Materials
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Photographs and Prints Division)
South Africa Black Consciousness Movement Collection
Part of Mandela Materials
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Photographs and Prints Division)
Records of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA)
Part of Rivonia Trial
Documents the pioneering anti-apartheid group in the US from its establishment in the 1950s. Documents related to Rivonia Trial are:
-Campaign against South African Apartheid: Memos, draft letters to and lists of sponsors, resolutions and declarations, flyers, clippings and notes 1963 (1960-1964). Major topics: Appeal for action against Apartheid, Rivonia arrests and trials, international boycott of South African goods etc.
-African National Congress Pamphlets. Includes: South African on Trial: Behind the Rivonia Case (no date).
-Mandela, Nelson (ca. 1964). Major topic: Rivonia trial.
-World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners: Rivonia Trial: Newsletters, statements, press releases, brochure (1963-1964).
-Writings: Chief Albert Luthuli (1957 and 1964). Major topics: Racial situation, Rivonia trial, ANC.
-Writings: Nelson Mandela (1961 and 1964). Major topics: 1961 Stay-at-home demonstration, Rivonia trial.
Microfilm versions available at Manuscripts and Archives, University of Cape Town.
American Committee on Africa
Part of Mandela Materials
ABC
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) CREST
Part of Mandela Materials
Central Intelligence Agency