Nelson Mandela
(2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
J/BIOGRAPHY/968.071/MANDELA,N
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2021
DESCRIPTION
156 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781419756085, 1419756087 :, 1419756087, 9781419756085
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
"Before he was the first Black president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela was a boy with a traditional Thembu upbringing. He went on to study law and become involved with African nationalist politics. The government had established an apartheid (a system of segregation that privileged white people), and Mandela worked to overthrow this system. He was arrested, accused of treason, and thrown in jail. When he was released, Mandela negotiated an end to the apartheid and was elected president"--