Nelson Mandela Book Summary

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SECONDARY SOURCES:
Source 1:
"Biography of Nelson Mandela." Nelson Mandela Foundation, 2017. Web. 11 Sept. 2017.

Nelson Mandela was born into the Madiba Clan Village of Mvezo, Transkei on July 18,1918 as a royal descendant. Through many unsuccessful trials in his educational career, he learned the political field was best suited for him. He became very politically involved as he joined the African National Congress, became the National Volunteer-in-Chief of the Defiance Campaign, planned a national strike for the amounts of people arrested and killed during the Treason Trial and became South Africa’s first democratically elected president.

Source 2:
"Nelson Mandela: Early Life." Google Arts & Culture. Google, n.d. Web. 2 Oct. 2017.

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Source 3:
Mandela, Nelson. Mandela: An Illustrated Autobiography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996. Print.

This book is an autobiography by Nelson Mandela which highlights his life. It talks about his childhood and how he was raised. It then transitions to talking about his political life and life in prison. This book was very reliable since it was a first hand account of many events that happened in Nelson Mandela’s own words. This book was a good reference for the other information I found about him in secondary sources. The images in the book were also very useful to the visualization of the events and places he talked about, however I did not use the pictures in the book on the website.

Source 4:
Fisher, Max. “Read the Most Important Speech Nelson Mandela Ever Gave.” The Washington
Post. WP Company, 05 Dec. 2013. Web. 2 Oct. 2017.

This speech was helpful in giving us more information about the context of South Africa during the time Nelson Mandela a political figure. Since this source has the original speech Nelson Mandela gave, it is reliable and gives a first hand account of the event. This speech showed how much Mandela valued freedom and how significant his goal was to him. It gave us a lot of information about his character and his

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