Apartheid was a policy of segregation enforced in South Africa for the people who were not white. It was enforced by the National Party government between 1948-1994. Nelson Mandela was the leader of movement against apartheid. He was convicted of several charges including sabotage. He was put in jail for 27 years, and was released February 11, 1990. He immediately started acting again to get the colored people equal rights. In 1994 he was elected president of South Africa in the first truly democratic election. Mandela received over 250 awards including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his contribution to world freedom. He will always be one of the greatest heros of civil rights movements.
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