Nelson Mandela


Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) joined the African National Congress in 1944, was elected its general secretary in 1948, and president in 1950. He was a central organizer of the mass Defiance Campaign in 1952, in which thousands challenged the apartheid regime’s internal passport laws. Imprisoned on frame-up charges in 1962, Mandela...

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