Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for his activities with the African National Congress, Mandela was released in 1990 and later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending apartheid ...
TREVOR MCDONALD: In the 1940s South Africa was under apartheid rule: the doctrine that white people were somehow superior to Black people. The white police force sometimes tortured and killed the ...
Follows the life of Nelson Mandela and his fight for freedom - from his childhood, to his 27 years in prison before becoming president and working to rebuild South Africa's once segregated society.
1985 – Black-Jewish Freedom Seders, co-sponsored by the Reform movement’s UAHC and the NAACP, honor jailed Soviet and African dissidents, including Natan Sharansky and Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela, whose successful struggle against ... He also completed drafts of his best-selling autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. 14. Mandela had six children: Madiba, Makaziwe, Magkatho ...
Nelson Mandela is a South African lawyer who joins the African National Congress in the 1940s when the law under the Apartheid system's brutal tyranny proves useless for his people. Forced to ...