Who Am I? (September/October 2013)

By RYEN OLIVIA BABBS, age 8

1. I was born on July 18,1918.
2. I helped form the African National Congress Youth League in 1944.
3. I was put in prison for 27 years for fighting the apartheid regime, a system of racial segregation imposed by law.
4. In February of 1990, when I was 71 years old, I was released from prison.
5. At 75 years old, I was the first South African black man to be elected president.
6. I won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

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ANSWER: Nelson Mandela