# Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela worked in twentieth-century South African anti-apartheid politics as a lawyer, African National Congress organizer, underground leader, prisoner, negotiator, and elected president. His public career moved through legal protest, mass organization, support for armed resistance after repression, long imprisonment, negotiation, constitutional transition, and nation-building.

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