https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh Reagan and Austin en-us 2017-12-15 15:05:03 UTC 2025-10-04 19:55:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png auand3545 https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216506359 He was born on July 18, 1918 and
died on December 5, 2013.]]> 2017-12-15 15:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216506359 rehed0361 https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216506442 Nelson Mandela spent almost 30 years in prison for fighting against apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid was a government policy that separated people of different races. After being freed from prison.]]> 2017-12-15 15:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216506442 rehed0361 https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216506975 In all, Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years, 18 of those on Robben Island, a rock quarry off the coast of Cape Town. He and eight other African National Congress leaders were convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government, and were sentenced to life in jail in 1964.]]> 2017-12-15 15:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216506975 auand3545 https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216507008 Nelson Mandela was the president of South Africa from 1994-1999. He was the first black president of South Africa, and the first president to be elected in a fully representative election.

]]> 2017-12-15 15:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216507008 rehed0361 https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216507351 In 1962, he was arrested for conspiring to overthrow the state and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial. Mandela served 27 years in prison, initially on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison.]]> 2017-12-15 15:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216507351 auand3545 https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216507498 In 2009, the United Nations proclaimed Mandela’s birthday (July 18th) to be Nelson Mandela International Day. The holiday asks people to spend 67 minutes doing something good for others, which represents the 67 years he spent working toward change.

]]> 2017-12-15 15:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216507498 rehed0361 https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216507685 His negotiations in the early 1990s with South African Pres. F.W. de Klerk helped end the country's apartheid system of racial segregation and ushered in a peaceful transition to majority rule. Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1993 for their efforts.]]> 2017-12-15 15:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216507685 rehed0361 https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216508641 Nelson Mandela spent his young life fighting for the freedom of South Africa's black and coloured population from oppression imposed by the minority government. He was imprisoned for 27 years. Soon after release, he became the first president of South Africa in elections in which all the people could vote.]]> 2017-12-15 15:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216508641 auand3545 https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216508921 Quotes: It always seems impossible until it's done.]]> 2017-12-15 15:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216508921 rehed0361 https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216508995 Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993]]> 2017-12-15 15:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rehed0361/hbjvo30pkgzh/wish/216508995