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Mandela, who was a lawyer, joined the ANC and eventually became deputy national president of the ANC. He advocated nonviolent resistance to apartheid–South Africa’s institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation. Mandela was elected South Africa's first black president in 1994.
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Mandela was tried for being threatening to Britain's, so he was arrested in 1961 for treason. And then the next year was arrested again for illegally leaving the country. Mandela was put in Robben Island Prison for 5 years and later on sentenced to life in prison with other leaders. Mandela was released in 1990 and built the government Africa needed.
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The largest non-violent protest against the British and their unjust laws for Africans. Done by South Africa Indian Congress
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Women had once again shown that the stereotype of women as politically inept and immature, tied to the home, was outdated and inaccurate. 10,000-20,000 women from all over came to Pretoria to participate in the march to enable a fairness for women.
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Police officers in a black township in South Africa opened fire on a group of people peacefully protesting oppressive pass laws, killing 69.
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The Apartheid government forcibly moved 3.5 million black South Africans. It is one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history.
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All Africans were citizens of “homelands,” eight million Africans lost their South African citizenship.
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Africans found in violation of past laws were stripped of citizenship and deported to poverty-stricken rural “homelands.”