Nelson Mandela : : Leader Against Apartheid
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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.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
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.
SERIES
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.