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Summary: Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mandella 2014

Slovo, Gillian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SLO

O'Malley, Padraig.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.0609 OMA

Summary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COL

Summary: The second offering in the Gerald Kraak annual anthology, As You Like It, is a collection of the short-listed entries submitted for the Gerald Kraak Award. This anthology offers a window into deeply located visions and voices across Africa. It brings together stories of self-expression, identity, sexuality, and agency, all located within Africa and its legacy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jacana 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 AS

Mandela, Winnie

Summary: "491 Days: Prisoner number 1323/69 shares with the world Winnie Mandela's moving and compelling journal along with some of the letters written between several affected parties at the time, including Winnie and Nelson Mandela, himself then a prisoner on Robben Island for nearly seven years. Readers will gain insight into the brutality she experienced and her depths of despair, as well as her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.062 MANDELA, WINNIE MAN

Mandela, Nelson

Summary: Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1995

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAN

Ellenport, Craig

Summary: Dennis Brutus was a poet and human rights activist whose works centered on his sufferings and those of Black South Africans. For fourteen years, Dennis taught English and Afrikaans in South Africa. As the white minority government increased restrictions on the black population, he became involved in a series of anti-apartheid related activities, including efforts to end discrimination in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRU

Muller, Peter Paul

Summary: A story of the South African lawyer Bram Fischer who defended Nelson Mandela and other members of his group during the Rivonia Trial.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020

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Belafonte, Harry

Summary: Biographical documentary about entertainer Harry Belafonte and the significant contributions he has made to social justice throughout the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SIN

Kasrils, Ronald.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Monthly Review Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KASRILS, ELEANOR KAS

Nagadya Isdahl, Nansubuga

Summary: "Before he was the first Black president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela was a boy with a traditional Thembu upbringing. He went on to study law and become involved with African nationalist politics. The government had established an apartheid (a system of segregation that privileged white people), and Mandela worked to overthrow this system. He was arrested, accused of treason, and thrown in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAN

Summary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRY

McDivitt, Lindsey

Summary: "This biography follows Nelson Mandela from his work with the African National Congress, to his imprisonment on Robben Island, to his extraordinary rise to the presidency"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAN

Wright, Adrienne

Summary: On June 16, 1976, Hector Pieterson, an ordinary boy, lost his life after getting caught up in what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Black South African students were marching against a new law requiring that they be taught half of their subjects in Afrikaans, the language of the White government. The story's events unfold from the perspectives of Hector, his sister, and the photographer...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PIE

Summary: The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007

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Cohen, David

Summary: Historic moments from Mandela's inspiring life are captured in more than one hundred iconic photos from the mid-1940s through August 2009. Six key Mandela speeches are included, as well as an informative text.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2009

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 968.06 MANDELA, NELSON BAT

Foster, Douglas.

Summary: A professor and leading authority on South Africa discusses the nation's post-apartheid era, drawing on interviews with regular citizens, the emerging black elite, as well as the homeless and those infected with HIV.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Pub. Corporation 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.066 FOS

Pryor, Shawn

Summary: "On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins across the South, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.6 PRY

Conyngham, Richard

Summary: "All rise: resistance and rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. In six parts--each of which is illustrated by a different South African artist--All Rise shares the long-forgotten struggles of ordinary, working-class women and men who defended the disempowered...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jacana Media 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 968.73 CON

Summary: Father and son clash in this movie about the anti-apartheid movement. Based on Percy Mtwa's play.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOP

Woerden, Henk van

Summary: Publisher description: If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri Tsafas would be that man. At a time when color was all, Tsafas, bastard son of a Greek father and an African mother, was untouchable -- too black for the whites and too white for the blacks. Stateless, homeless, and loveless, on September 6, 1966, he entered South Africa's Parliament...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.31 WOE

Courtenay, Bryce

Summary: Story of Peekay, an English boy, living in South Africa during World War II whose dream is to become a winner.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COU

Benson, Koni

Summary: Crossroads: I Live Where I Like is a graphic nonfiction history of women-led movements at the forefront of the struggle for land, housing, and public services in Cape Town, South Africa, over the last fifty years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 BEN

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