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Nelson Mandela And The Civil Rights Movement

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Mandela was a very important racial quality activist in the 20th century as he called out racism in America, which than led to something he like to calls ‘our walk to freedom’. Nelson Mandela started at being protest action and numerous strikes with the inspiration from Mohandas Gandhi’s non-violence approach guiding him on the way to deliver his message to congress. Nelson Mandela was a African National Congress also known as ‘ANC’ founded in 1912 by black lawyers. In 1960 the apartheid government banned and because they were afraid of their protests interrupting the system they had, but ANC did not take that easy so they secretly continued their work underground. Sadly Nelson’s organization was caught in 1962 and then Nelson was imprisoned for 27 years on Roben Island. …show more content…

His perseverance and dedication to racial equality made him a famous public figure as well as made him an individual in his society who believed in something quite beautiful for a new world of peace among the two races. Being the peaceful and non-violent man who Nelson was, he accepted his arrest freely, as he believed someday, when he got out, he would never stop pursuing his vision of the world he thought was possible which was to stop the vicious way of racial discrimination. Prison granted Nelson the opportunity to write for his book “The Long walk to Freedom” which moved many parties of South Africa and around the world. He was released from prison in 1990 and spent the time of freedom pursuing what he did before he was sentenced which was ending the apartheid system in

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