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Nelson Mandela

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  • Born

    Nelson Mandela was born in a South African village

  • African National Congress

    Nelson Mandela joined the ANC, a political party that wished to give equal rights and freedom to entire country

  • Apartheid

    The ANC instituted Apartheid, a legal system of racial segregation where Mandela started his non-violent campaigning against it
  • Period: to

    Apartheid

  • Arrest

    Mandela was arrested for a strike he had organized the previous year, and later he was sentenced to five years in prison, but he ended up spending his next 27 years in jail.

  • No prison

    Mandela was finally released at the age of 72 by the country’s new president

  • End of Apartheid

    The Population Registration Act was repealed

  • Nobel Peace Prize

  • Period: to

    President

  • 1 democratic elections

    All people could vote

  • President of South Africa

    Nelson Mandela was elected as the first black president of South Africa

  • No president

    Nelson Mandela stepped down as a president