Nelson Mandela

Oliver Tambo

F/L of Mandela's partner in the first black law firm

F.W. de Klerk

F/L of the person who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela in 1993

Apartheid

Legal separation of the races/white minority ruling black majority

Robben Island

Location where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison

1952

Mandela and Oliver Tambo opened the first black law firm in South Africa

1944

Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC)

12/10/93

Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their effort to end an apartheid

5/10/94

Nelson Mandela inauguratrd as the first black president of South Africa

2/11/90

Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years

69

Number of unarmed black protesters who were killed in the Sharpville Massacre

Sharpville Massacre

The 1960 murder of 69 unarmed black protesters which provoked Mandela

12/5/(20)13

The month, day, year of the date Mandela died at age 95

Umkhonto "spear"

The term for the militant wing of the ANC founded by Mandela after the Sharpville Massacre

1962

The year Mandela left the country (South Africa) illegally to get weapons from Algeria

1962-1990

The year Nelson Mandela was sent to prison AND year Nelson Mandela was released from prison

5

Total number of Years of Mandela's initial prison sentence

27

Total number of years Mandela spent in prison

18

Total number of years Mandela spent on Robben Island

1962

When Nelson Mandela was sent to prison

Algeria

Where Mandela went to get weapons for the black people in South Africa

1964

Year Mandela was convicted of treason and received a life sentence