Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

NELSON MANDELA, ACTIVIST, PRISONER, PRESIDENT

ery few great leaders have made as big an impact on a nation and the world as Nelson Mandela. His name belongs among those of such notables as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.—both patriots who fought for the human right to live without domination and who led revolutions in their nations. Who could tell that a revolutionary was inside a boy herding animals in the early 1900s countryside of South Africa? Mandela was groomed to be a village

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