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Nelson Mandela
he was inspired by Gandhi and his peaceful protest in India
He was convinced that non violence was the only possible way to solve south Africans problems
born in
1918
in the southester part of south Africa
the Mandela family was related to the royal Thembu family
he lost is father at the age 9 and he was adopted by a Thembu regent
he attended a missionary school at the university becoming a lawyer in 1942
in 1944 he became leader of the youth section in the ANC (African National Congress)
in 1956 was arrested on a high treason charge
Mandela and other activists founded an armed wing of ANC
from 1964 to 1982 together with other ANC leaders, Mandela was locked up in the high security prison of Robben Island
in 1994 South Africa granted citizens the universal suffrage
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an organization that fought for freedom and civil rights of black people in South Africa
he was a determining figure for the
end of the Apartheid
the south african racial segregation system
he received the nobel peace price in 1993
the UN proclaimed the Nelson Mandela day in 2009
he spended
27
years in prison
all his life he fought for the civil rights of blacks in south Africa