Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela

• By Danny Friedman and Michael Giuliano

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Early Life and Background

• Nelson Mandela was born in a village near Umata
  on July 18, 1918
• Mandelas father was the principal councilor for
  the chief of Thembuland
• Mandela had a very tough childhood because his
  father died when he was nine years old
• Nelson was the first child in his family to
  attend school

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Education

• When Nelson was young he received an education at
  a local mission school
• He later went to a secondary school in order to
  get into college
• Nelson then went to the university college of
  Fort Hare

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His Arrest

• Mandela was arrested in South Africa August 1962
• He was sentenced to prison for incitement and
  leaving the country illegally
• At first Mandela was put in jail for five years

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What happened after his arrest?

• In 1964 Mandela was put on trial and sentenced to
  life imprisonment on Robben Island
• During his arrest he was able to stay in touch
  with other antiapartheid activists

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Release

• Mandela finally got out of jail because world
  leaders wanted him out of jail
• He was in jail for twenty-seven years
• On his day of release he made a very famous speech

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Accomplishments

• After his release Mandela focused on giving
  blacks the right to vote nationally and locally
• Most importantly he ended the apartheid and won
  the Nobel Prize in 1993

• Later he wrote his autobiography called Long Walk
  to Freedom

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Speech After Release

• During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to
  the struggle of the African people. I have fought
  against white denomination, and I have fought
  against black domination. I have cherished the
  ideal of a democratic and free society in which
  all persons live together in harmony and with
  ideal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope
  to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it
  is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

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