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Entry Personal Name

Number of records used in: 2

001 - CONTROL NUMBER

  • control field: 1

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

  • control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

  • control field: 20160226164046.0

008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS

  • fixed length control field: 870626n| azannaabn |n aaa

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

  • LC control number: n 87875843

035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

  • System control number: (OCoLC)oca01884742

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

  • Original cataloging agency: DLC
  • Language of cataloging: eng
  • Description conventions: rda
  • Transcribing agency: DLC
  • Modifying agency: DLC
  • Modifying agency: NjBlaOCU
  • Modifying agency: OCoLC
  • Modifying agency: DLC
  • Modifying agency: IEN
  • Modifying agency: DLC
  • Modifying agency: DHU-MS

046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES

  • Birth date: 19400401
  • Death date: 20110925

100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME

  • Personal name: Maathai, Wangari

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

  • Place of birth: Nyeri (Kenya)
  • Associated country: Kenya
  • Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

  • Associated group: University of Pittsburgh
  • Associated group: University of Nairobi
  • Associated group: Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)
  • Associated group: Kenya. Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources
  • Source of term: naf

374 ## - OCCUPATION

  • Occupation: Public officers
  • Occupation: Environmentalists
  • Occupation: College teachers
  • Source of term: lcsh

375 ## - GENDER

  • Gender: female

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • Source citation: The Green Belt Movement, 1985?:
  • Information found: t.p. (Wangari Maathai) cover, p. 4 (formerly assoc. prof. of anatomy, U. of Nairobi)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • Source citation: Unbowed, 2006:
  • Information found: t.p. (Wangari Muta Maathai) jacket flap (born in Nyeri, Kenya, in 1940)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • Source citation: New York times WWW site, Sept. 27, 2011
  • Information found: (Wangari Maathai; Wangari Muta Maathai; b. Apr. 1, 1940, Nyeri, Kenya; d. Sunday [Sept. 25, 2011], Nairobi, aged 71; Kenyan environmentalist who started out by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • Source citation: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition; accessed March, 10, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:
  • Information found: (Maathai, Wangari; Presidential candidate, organization founder/official, environmentalist, professor; born 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya; studied at Loreto Limuru Girls School; received B.S. degree in biology from Mount Scholastica College, Kansas, (1964); studied at the University of Pittsburgh; continued her graduate study at the University of Nairobi, Kenya (1966); received a Ph.D. in veterinary medicine and became a professor at University of Nairobi; an environmental activist, she founded Green Belt Movement (1977), later supported by United Nations; objected construction of 62-story building Nairobi's Uhuru Park; Kenyan president expelled the Green Belt Movement from Nairobi office; was elected to parliament, was appointed assistant minister of Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife (2002); won Goldman Prize (for environmental activists); Africa Prize for Leadership, Better World Award; was awarded Nobel Peace Prize “for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace” (2004))