Men With Mojo Video Profile on Nelson Mandela: #8

the first member of his family to attend
school Nelson Mandela continues to leave
a mark in today’s society for on july
eighteen nineteen eighteen he earned a
law degree and was an active member of
the African National Congress a youth
wing in Johannesburg perhaps he is most
admired for the 27 years he spent in
jail in opposition to white minority
government and its policy against racial
separation known as apartheid in South
Africa not only did he become a martyr
he was also a symbol of resistance
racism in 1990 he was released from jail
by the white garment as a move to
compromise with the blacks after his
release he look elected president of
South Africa in the nation’s first
all-race election over the course of
four decades he has received over 100
awards including the 1993 Nobel Peace
Prize