Mandela Is Freed
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Law, Legal History, Courts
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Segregation, Desegregation, Apartheid, Human Rights, Kidnapping, Hostages, Prisoners
- Curriculum: African History
- Geographical Location: South Africa
- Date: February 11, 1990
Article abstract: Nelson Mandela, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 on charges of sabotage, was released from prison and resumed negotiations with the National Party to dismantle apartheid.
Summary of Event
Although Europeans had practiced discrimination, taken valued lands, and waged war against the indigenous peoples of southern Africa prior to the mid-twentieth century, it was the rise to power of the Afrikaner-dominated National Party in 1948 that ushered in full-blown apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning apartness). The Population Registration...
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