Cross-Curricular Connections

from Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela was the first democratically-elected president of South Africa. Click on the link below to learn about Mandela, his imprisonment, and his rise to the highest office in the land.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/

Mandela was imprisoned for his opposition to an institutionalized form of discrimination called apartheid. Click on the link below to learn about the history of apartheid in South Africa and its eventual abolition.

http://www.apartheidmuseum.org/