Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020

1924 E.S. Reddy is born in a small village of Pallapalli in India to E.V. Narasa Reddy, a Gandhian who went to prison in the individual satyagraha in 1941, and Ramamma. 1943 E.S. Redy receives his B. A. from the University of Madras, India. 1946 March, E.S Reddy arrives in US. Reddy leads an Indian student demonstration organized by the Council in front of the South African Consulate. 8 November, Reddy meets a delegation of African National Congress (ANC) President-General Dr. A. B. Xuma, 1948 Reddy obtains his M.A. from New York University. 1949 26 May, E.S Reddy joins the United Nations Secretariat as Political Affairs Officer in the Section for Africa and the Middle East. 1956 November, Reddy is political officer with the United Nations Emergency Force, stationed in Cairo from November 1956 to March 1957. 1963 He is appointed Secretary of the Special Committee against Apartheid. 1966 E.S. Reddy is Appointed Secretary, Committee of Trustees, United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa, established to assist political prisoners and their families. 1973 Reddy is appointed Director, United Nations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africans. 1976 Reddy becomes the Director of the Centre against Apartheid. 1977 August, He organises the World Conference for Action against Apartheid, Lagos, Nigeria. 1981 May He organises the International Conference for Sanctions against South Africa, Paris. 1982 Reddy receives Joliot-Curie Medal from the World Peace Council. 1983 Reddy is appointed as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in charge of the Centre. 1985 February Mr Reddy retires from the United Nations but continues to work against apartheid, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) for Southern Africa and as a consultant to the Chairman of the Special Committee and to the Indian government. 1995 Mr Reddy receives honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Durban-Westville in 1995, in recognition of his contribution to struggle against apartheid and scholarly work on South Africa. 2000 March, Reddy is awarded Padma Sri (India’s national award) by the President of India. 2010 September, E.S. Reddy received the Gandhi Award for Reconciliation and Peace from the Gandhi Development Trust in Durban. September, He receives the Sol Plaatje award from the Lenasia branch of the African National Congress (ANC). 2020 1 November - Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy passes away in the United States of America