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Tolbert’s credibility was damaged by what became known as the Rice Riots, the first widespread violence in the nation’s history.In the early hours of April 12, 1980, seventeen non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Armed Forces of Liberia led by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe initiated a coup against the Tolbert government.






William Richard Tolbert, Jr. (13 mai 1913 12 avril 1980) était un homme politique libérien, président de la République du Libéria de 1971 à sa mort en 1980. Nine years later in 1952, Tolbert was elected vice president to President William Tubman and served in that position until he became president after Tubman death in 1971.Tolbert was born in Bensonville, Montserrado County, Liberia, on May 13, 1913, the grandson of a former American slave from Charleston, South Carolina, who immigrated to Liberia in the Liberia Exodus of 1878.

Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Tolbert graduated from Liberia College and entered politics in the early 1940s. views updated .



Pasteur baptiste, il a été président de lAlliance baptiste mondiale de 1965 à 1970. On April 14, 1979, about two thousand activists began a march on the executive mansion.

In 1951, he ran as William V.S. Most of the Tolbert cabinet members were tried and sentenced to death. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree....









William Richard Tolbert Jr. was the twentieth president of Liberia from 1971 to 1980, when he was killed in a coup led by then Liberian Army Sergeant Samuel Doe. Only four Tolbert cabinet members survived the coup, including future president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.



Ce coup d'État sanglant marque une rupture en mettant fin au règne des Libériens descendants d'Américains qui mènent les destinées du pays depuis son indépendance.

He was elected president of the Baptist World Alliance in 1965 and some years later was ordained as an elder. All donations are tax deductible.

William Richard Tolbert Jr. Haynsworth, Clement Furman, Jr. gale. Tolbert severed ties with Israel during the Yom Kippur War in October 1973 when he spoke favorite of the Palestinian people.



The Progressive Alliance of Liberia called for a peaceful demonstration in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, to protest the proposed price increased. Tolbert, a member of one of the most influential and affluent Americo-Liberians families, appointed his brothers and cousins to key government positions.Tolbert abandoned Tubman’s pro-West foreign policy, establishing diplomatic relations with communist nations like the Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China, Cuba, and several Eastern Bloc countries.

Tolbert graduated from Liberia College and entered politics in the early 1940s. Tolbert’s father, William R. Tolbert Sr., had more than twenty children which made the Tolbert family one of the largest Americo-Liberian families in Liberia. William Richard Tolbert Jr. was the twentieth president of Liberia from 1971 to 1980, when he was killed in a coup led by then Liberian Army Sergeant Samuel Doe.




Après neuf années au pouvoir, le président libérien William R. Tolbert est renversé par un groupe de militaires des Forces armées du Liberia, dirigés par Samuel K. Doe. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.









The group entered the president palace and killed Tolbert whose body was dumped in a mass grave together with other victims of the coup. Because of the popularity of the reforms, he was elected president in his on right in 1975.

He was unopposed.During this term, however, Tolbert’s government was criticized for failing to address the deep economic disparities between the Americo-Liberians who had dominated the country since independence in 1847, and the various indigenous ethnic groups that comprised over 80 percent of the population.

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In 1943 he was elected to the House of Representatives, where President

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So,… we ask: Note that the change from unlimited four-year terms to one eight-year term was actually a Tubman amendment implemented by Tolbert.



Il fut aussi président de lOUA entre 1979 et 1980. The military take-over was a bloody one, labeled ‘a revolution’ by the 18 enlisted men of the Armed Forces of Liberia who toppled the Government of William R. Tolbert.





William R. Tolbert, in full William Richard Tolbert, Jr., (born May 13, 1913, Bensonville, Liberia—died April 12, 1980, Monrovia), West African politician who was president of Liberia from 1971 to 1980.