1. 27 YEARS IN JAIL : T HE STORY OF N ELSON M ANDELA By Riley Fletcher

2.  First President  President from 1994 to 1999  Went to jail for 27 years  Fought for equality and for everyone to be free and to live in harmony

3.  Born July 18 th 1918  Died December 5 th 2013  January 11 th 1962 he left South Africa  He came back on July of 1962 after he had military training  In 1964 he was sentenced for sabotage and planning to bomb several governments

4.  Born into a royal family of the Thembu tribe  On June 14 th 1958 he married a social worker  Him and the Social Worker had two daughters  They got divorce in 1996

5.  In the early 1990s Nelson Mandela ended Racial Segregation in South Africa  He received the Nobel piece prize in 1993  Nelson joined African National Congress in 1994  2001 diagnosed with prostate cancer  2004 retired from public life

6. M INI Q UIZ  How long did he go to jail for?  Why did he go to jail?  Why was he important?  What did he fight for?  What tribe was he born into?

7. A NSWER  27 Years  sabotage and planning to bomb governments  First President of South Africa  Equality and for everyone to be free and to live in harmony  Thembu tribe