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Acknowledgments

Many, many people contributed to his project. I first thank Gillian Berchowitz for her initial invitation to write about Albert Luthuli and for her expert and encouraging editorial guidance. Peter Alegi, Jean Allman, Phil Bonner, Benedict Carton, Robert Edgar, Michael Kirkwood, Dingane Mthethwa, Jon Soske, Raymond Suttner, Tyler Thomson, and Wendy Urban-Mead read all or portions of this work, though I remain solely responsible for any errors. I also thank Joel Cabrita, Benedict Carton, Robert Edgar, Natasha Erlank, Abosede George, Michael Gomez, Elizabeth Gunner, Robert Houle, Paul Landau, Peter Limb, E. S. Reddy, Jabulani Sithole, Karin Shapiro, Jon Soske, and Raymond Suttner for stimulating conversations about Luthuli. I also thank the participants at the 2015 Northeastern Workshop on South African History, the African History seminar at Duke University, the African Diaspora seminar at New York University, the African Christianities Conference at Cambridge University, and the Armed Struggle Conference at the University of the Witwatersrand for commenting on earlier iterations of this work. Generous funding from the College of William and Mary made possible research trips to South Africa and the United Kingdom and throughout the United States. I am very grateful to Diana Lachatenere and Steven Fullwood III at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and especially to Ms. Thandi Luthuli-Gcabashe for making available to me the Albert Luthuli papers deposited there. I am also indebted to Peter Limb for making available the Mary-Louise Hooper papers while they were still being processed. Of course, nothing is possible without the support and eternal love of the Vinson, McClendon, and Harvey families. This book is dedicated to my grandmother, Josephine Vinson, for loving me unconditionally and to my cousin Jean, who was there when I most needed her and whom I miss every single day.