Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid is a racial-segregation policy that the south african government used from 1948 to 1994. Under this system, nonwhites, colored, or Indian-did not share full rights of citizenship with the whites. The term apartheid has also been used in similar movements and other forms of racial separation, social, and educational, in other parts of the world.

Nelson Mandela was born in south Africa under the apartheid rule of goverment. he started out as the leader of a underground political group called the ANC, the african national congress. the group led demonstrations agenst the white ruled govermant and it made them quite unpopular with them. in fact, they tryed to shut him up for good in 1964 when he was sentenced to life in prison. the trial was called the Rivonia trial, and it was notorious for being one of the most racist trials in all of history. It was mainly just something to slow down the progress of the south africans, and to shut up one of its leaders for good, or so they thought. it dident last for long, as in 1990, after 27 years of inprisonment, Nelson Mandela was freed. no less then 5 years later, he was given the nobel peace prize and was elescted president of south africa.