Nelson Mandela

Felipe Nóbrega
Gabriel de Vasconcelos
Lohan Alexandre
The fight against Apartheid M2 208 - SJM
 Biography of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was president of South Africa. He was the

leader of the movement against Apartheid - legislation that segregated black
people in the country. Sentenced to perpetual imprisonment in 1964, he was
released in 1990 after great international pressure. He received the "Nobel
Peace Prize" in December 1993 for his fight against racial segregation.
 Mandela's struggle against the laws of Apartheid

Among the legacies left by European settlers in Africa, the most brutal was
South Africa's racism. Based on the ideas of racial superiority of the white man,
the European man instituted laws that sustained the apartheid (separation)
regime for many years. Interracial marriage was forbidden, the registration of
the race on the certificate was required, whites and blacks lived in separate
areas, where schools, hospitals, squares, etc. were established in different
locations for the two races, etc. Racial segregation, lack of political and civil
rights, and the confinement of Blacks in regions determined by the white
government caused a series of massacres and deaths of the Black population.
 Mandela Prison

In 1960, several black leaders were persecuted, arrested, tortured,

murdered or convicted. Among them was Mandela, who in 1964 was
sentenced to life imprisonment. In the 1980s, the international
condemnation of apartheid intensified, culminating in a plebiscite that
ended with the approval of the end of the regime. On 11 February 1990,
after 26 years, South African President Frederik de Klerk, freed Mandela