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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MANO'Malley, Padraig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.0609 OMACohen, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 968.06 MANDELA, NELSON BATEllenport, 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...
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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 BRUKasrils, Ronald.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monthly Review Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KASRILS, ELEANOR KASMcDivitt, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2021
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.062 MANDELA, WINNIE MANSlovo, Gillian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SLOMandela, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANMathabane, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATHABANE, MARK MATWoerden, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.31 WOENelson, Kadir.
Summary: Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2013
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Summary: Biography of Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned during the apartheid years and became the elected leader of South Africa after being released.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MANDELA BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 921 Mandela 2006Noah, Trevor
Summary: "The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NOAH NOABourgois, Philippe I.
Summary: This study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. The authors followed a social network of heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling and day labour.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2009