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Nelson Mandela : : Leader Against Apartheid

Pogrund, Benjamin. Book - 2003 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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Apartheid -- Permanent settlement -- Dislike of authority -- Inter-tribal warfare -- City of gold -- Systems of control -- Birth of the ANC, 1912 -- More segregation laws -- Nelson Mandela is born -- The great place -- A celebratory feast -- Suspended from college -- Johannesburg -- Marriage -- Family life -- African Nationalists -- The ANC Youth League -- Racial "pigeonholes" -- Enforcing apartheid -- Suppression picks up pace -- Mandela the leader -- Challenging the government -- Mass police raids -- How to fight back? -- Banned -- The treason trial --Winnie -- The ANC splits -- Fighting the passes -- The Sharpeville massacre -- The Black Pimpernel -- Sabotage -- Prison -- Accused number one -- Life -- A time of change -- Winnie's struggle -- Release offers for Mandela -- To Pollsmoor prison -- Release, but on condition -- Split inside government -- Release at last -- Without bitterness -- Winnie -- Violence stirs fears -- Power struggle.
A biography of Nelson Mandela, who spent twenty-seven years in jail for his political beliefs, focusing on his fight against apartheid, South Africa's system of segregation and oppression based on color.

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Details the life of Nelson Mandela submitted by tbbrown76 on August 12, 2014, 11:43am Also, the history of South Africa. A good, quick read. Recommended.

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World peacemakers.



PUBLISHED
San Diego, Calif. : Blackbirch Press, c2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1567119786 :

SUBJECTS
Mandela, Nelson -- 1918-
Presidents -- South Africa -- Biography.
Presidents -- South Africa.
Apartheid -- South Africa.
Civil rights workers.
Nobel Prizes -- Biography.
Blacks -- South Africa -- Biography.