Mboya, Tom

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From the guide to the Letters from Tom Mboya to James Johnson M.P. (microfilm), 1957, (The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House)

Biographical Note

• 1930: Born, Kenya
• 1950s: Works for Nairobi City Council as a sanitary inspector
• 1953 July: Attends Third World Conference of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in Stockholm
• 1953 October: Becomes Secretary General of the Kenya Federation of Registered Trade Unions, subsequently the Kenya Federation of Labor
• 1955 - 1956 : Studies at Oxford University
• 1956: Undertakes first speaking tour of the United States
• 1957: Elected Member of the Legislative Council of Kenya
• 1958 December: Serves as chairman of the All African Peoples Conference in Accra, Ghana
• 1959: Visits the United States and forms the African-American Students Foundation in conjunction with William Scheinman. This foundation initiates the student airlift program that brings Kenyan students to the United States and Canada
• 1960: Becomes Secretary General of the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a political party which supports Jomo Kenyatta Supervises second student airlift program
• 1960 January - 1960 February : Participates in the Lancaster House negotiations on Kenyan independence, in London
• 1962: Participates in second Lancaster House conference on Kenyan independence Becomes Minister for Labor
• 1963: Author, Freedom and After
• 1963 - 1964 : Serves as Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs
• 1964 - 1969 : Serves as Minister for Economic Planning and Development
• 1969 July 5: Assassinated in Nairobi

From the guide to the Tom Mboya papers, 1950-1969, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)