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Home · Celebrity

Nelson Mandela As a Young Man

A look back at this legendary leader's roots.

By · June 27, 2013October 28, 2020
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All Smiles

Nelson Mandela circa 1960’s.

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Young Professional

Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela in 1960. The two partners opened the first Black legal firm in South Africa.

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Young Love

Mandela marries Winnie Madikizela in June 1958 in Ponderland, South Africa.

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Up Close and Personal

Nelson Mandela circa 1960’s.

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Mandela 1961

A file photo dated 1961 of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela.

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Champ

Nelson Mandela was a respectable boxer in his youth in the early 1950’s.

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Eye of the Tiger

Nelson Mandela circa 1960’s.

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Talking Business

Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress, in discussion in 1964 with C Andrews, a Cape Town teacher.

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Freedom Fighters

Nelson Mandela is smuggled out of the country. He attends the Pan-African Freedom Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which is hosted by Oliver Tambo, and addresses the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa, South Africa.

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On Trial

Defendants Moses Kotane (left) and Nelson Mandela leave a courtroom in Pretoria, South Africa, during the Treason Trial, 1958. The trial, of 156 people, lasted from 1956 to 1961. 

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Energizing the People

The South African political leader Nelson Mandela gives a speech before the African Congress in 1961.

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Handsome Young Man

Mandela becomes national president of the ANC Youth League in 1951.

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Mandela in London

The ANC responds to government’s banning by endorsing an armed struggle. Mandela goes underground and launches the armed struggle by forming Umkhonto we Sizwe (The Spear of the Nation) or MK. MK’s policy is to target only government offices and symbols of apartheid, not people. Here, we see Nelson Mandela in London in 1950. 

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