Wednesday, May 02, 2007

nelson mandela and aparetheid

apartheid = An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
Nelson Mandela was an important figure for the African Americans because he fought for what he believed in and for the right of his people by this i mean he wanted to give the the right to vote and he wanted to stop the discrimination from the colored people and the people of no color , because of this Mandela was in prison for 28 years 18 of those 28 years were in Robben island Mandela got out of prison February/11/1990.
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/1990_01b.jpg
Nelson Mandela also got a noble peace prize http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/2010/mandela.jpg

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