South Africa. His father was a chief of the Xhosa-speaking Tembu

tribe. Mandela gave up his rights to succeed his father and instead

prepared for a legal career. He attended the University College of

Fort Hare, studied law by correspondence at Witwatersrand

University, and received a law degree from the University of South

Africa in 1942. That year in Soweto, he and a friend opened the first

black law partnership in South Africa.

Mandela joined the ANC in 1941 and helped from the

organization's Youth League. In 1948, the South Africa government

established it's policy of apartheid. The ANC called for equality for all

races and began leading open resistance to the government charged

Mandela with treason and other serious crimes, but, he was found

government leaders. He sought to obtain political power for the

country's National Assembly, and Mandela stepped down as head of

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