(CNN)-- When Nelson Mandela stepped out of South Africa's Victor Verster prison a free man 20 years ago Thursday, he was his country's most famous freedom fighter. Black South Africans and other ...

Nelson Mandela was a famous leader. A man who went from being a prisoner to a President and became an inspiration to people all over the world! Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa. Most South ...

For the man who conquered apartheid, Jews were vital allies. Jewish lawyers represented him in multiple trials and Jewish activists and political figures played leading roles in the fight.

TREVOR MCDONALD: In the 1940s South Africa was under apartheid rule: the doctrine that white people were somehow superior to Black people. The white police force sometimes tortured and killed the ...