Nelson Mandela
Subtitle: "no easy walk to freedom" : a biography
By: Barry Denenberg
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781407147581
Subjects: Anti-apartheid activists; Anti-apartheid movement; Political prisoners; Anti-apartheid movements; Presidents; Juvenile literature; Biography; Civil rights workers
Description: This powerful biography provides an in-depth look at Nelson Mandela who grew up in a rural village in South Africa under racist apartheid rule--a regime he ultimately helped overthrow. Denenberg explores the history of South Africa and its often violent struggle for civil rights, while tracing Mandela's role in that history. Lawyer, leader of the African National Congress, political prisoner who spent 26 years in jail, president--no one else has had such enormous influence on his fellow South Africans. Even beyond South Africa Nelson Mandela has influenced freedom fighters everywhere.