William Cullen Wilcox, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Important early anti-racist missionaries to South Africa
Date of Birth: 06-Aug-1850
Place of Birth: Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Date of Death: 26-Jan-1928
Profession: missionary
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About William Cullen Wilcox
- The Reverend William Cullen Wilcox (August 6, 1850 – January 26, 1928) was an American missionary to South Africa.
- With his wife, Ida Belle Clary Wilcox, he "adopted" John Dube, who was to be the first President of the African National Congress and the first black founder of a South African school.
- Ida Wilcox taught Nokutela Mdima who was to become Nokutela Dube.
- The Wilcoxes arranged for black South Africans to own land, and as a result they were driven out of South Africa in 1918.
- The South African government conferred the Order of the Companions of O.
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- They "sacrificed all that they had in solidarity with the South African people."
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