BC
1124 M W(BILL) SWANSON PAPERS
Manuscripts & Archives
University of Cape Town Libraries
List
of contents
A
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research
into writing the biography of Allison Wessels George Champion &
primary sources
A
1
Articles
on the art of biography
A
2
Book
plan for MWS biography of Allison Wessel George Champion
A
3.1
AWGC
notes, letters, writings and reminiscences
A
3.2
5
cassette tapes marked AWGC Oct.1974
A
3.3
Transcript
of tapes [184 pages]
A
4.1
Biographical
notes collected by MWS on AWGC, including some personal assessments
A
4.2
Transcripts
of specific interviews with people who had known AWGC
A
4.3
Biographies
of, and interviews (not involving MWS) with peers of AWGC
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Henry S Msimang
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Jordan K Ngubane
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M B Yengwa
A
5
Photocopies
of letters, newsclippings (mostly official ICU correspondence), articles
etc. taken from archival collections, esp.Champion Papers (Wits); Forman
Collection(UCT), and covering 1925-48
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also included “1949
Riots”; “1950”; “1951”; “undated re YL”;
“Misc.unsorted”;
unlabelled
photocopies
A
6
AWGC
death
A
7
Chronologies
B
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secondary sources for research
B
Planning
notes and articles
B
1
G
F Baines - New
Brighton, Port Elizabeth c.1903-1953:
a
history of an urban African community
B
2
Beinart
and Bundy - The
societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Union, the nation and the talking crow : the language and tactics of
the independent ICU in East London
B
3
P
L Bonner - The Transvaal Native
Congress 1917-1920 : the rationalization of the black petty bougeoisie on
the Rand
B
4
Helen
Bradford - Class
contradictions and class alliances : the social nature of ICU leadership,
1924-1929
B
5
Helen
Bradford - Mass
movements and the petty bourgeoisie : the social origins of ICU
leadership, 1924-1929
B
6
Helen
Bradford - A
taste of freedom
B
7
A
G Cobley - The
Caribbean in Africa : a case study : black political consciousness and the
Afro-Caribbean community in South Africa
B
8
A
G Cobley - Class
and consciousness : the black petty bourgeoisie in South Africa, 1924-1950
-[Introduction]
B
9
A
G Cobley - Class and consciousness :
the black petty bourgeoisie in South Africa, 1924-1950 - [Chapter
4 + conclusion]
B
10
Frederick
Cooper - Conflict
and connection : rethinking colonial history
B
11
N
Cope - The
Zulu Royal Family during the reign of Solomon 1914-1933
B
12
Etherington,
Norman – African
Economic Experiments in Colonial Natal 1845-80
B
13
Steven
Feierman - African
histories and the dissolution of world history
B
14
R
J Haines - Policing
urban culture : inter-racial philanthropy in Durban, 1907-1932
B
15
David
Henson - Class
consciousness and migrant workers : dock workers of Durban
B
16
R
Hunt Davis Jr. - John
L Dube : a South African exponent of Booker T Washington
B
17
Paul
la Hausse - Beer,
social control and segregation : the Durban system and the 1929 beerhall
riots
B
18
Paul
la Hausse - The
dispersal of the regiments : African popular protest in Durban
B
19
Paul
la Hausse - The
struggle for the city : alcohol, the ematsheni and popular culture in
Durban, 1902-1936
B
20
Erich
E Maier - Leadership, objectives and tactics in the ICU
B
21
Shula
Marks - “Inkatha
and contemporary politics” - review article
B
22
Shula
Marks - Natal,
the Zulu Royal Family and the ideology of segregation
B
23
Shula
Marks - Patriotism,
patriarchy and purity : Natal and the politics of Zulu ethnic
consciousness
B
24
Shula
Marks - Reluctant rebellion. The
1906-8 disturbances in Natal
B
25
Shula
Marks and Richard Rathbone - Industrialisation
and social change in South Africa, 1870-1930
B
26
Paul
Maylam - Aspects
of African urbanization in the Durban area before 1940
B
27
Paul
Maylam
The rise and decline of urban apartheid in South Africa
B
28
Paul
Maylam - Shackled
by the contradictions : the municipal response to African urbanization
B
29
Margery
Perhan - African
apprenticeship : an autobiographical journey
B
30
Jennifer
Powell - The
role of AWG Champion and the ICU in Natal in the development of worker
consciousness 1926-1930
B
31
Edward
Roux - Time longer than rope
[extracts]
B
32
C
Saunders - The making of the past - (Chapter
16 - The
challenge begins)
B
33
Ari
Sitas - Inanda,
August 1985 : “Where wealth and power and blood reign worshipped gods”
B
34
Leroy
Vaille - The
creation of tribalism in Southern Africa
B
35
Peter
Walshe - The
aftermath of WW1 : a search for social justice; the economic colour bar, education, taxation and pass laws
B
36
Brian
Willan - Sol
Plaatje, De Beers and an old tram shed : class relations and social
control in a South African town
B
37
South
African Labour Bulletin, September 1971 - 3 articles on ICU
C
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MW Swanson’s notes
C
Includes
card system with references re organisations, institutions, personalities
and events
D
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Other writings by M W Swanson
D
1
“ANC
in Natal... 1945-51”
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preparation notes and article
D
2
Clermont
1930-1950
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preparation
notes and article
D
3
The
Durban System” : roots of urban apartheid in colonial Natal
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article
D
4
A
visit to the Zulu kings
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article
D
5
The
Sanitation Syndrome : Bubonic plague and urban native policy
in the Cape Colony, 1900-1909
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article
D
6
“The
Asiatic Menace” creating segregation in Durban, 1870-1900
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article
D
7
Evaluation
of an article - Garveyism
and the ICU
E
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Current research
E
1
“Current
research - AWGC”
E
2
“Current
research - Misc.”