Week of July 21, 2008

News Item: Former South African President, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday last week. He was recently removed from a United States terrorism watch list. A bill, sponsored by U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Bob Corker (R-TN), and signed by President Bush in early July, called for the removal of Mandela from the list.

In His Own Words
By Nelson Mandela. Little, Brown and Co., 2003
Call Number: DT1974 .M338 2003

An Irresistible Vision: Mandela and the End of Apartheid (DVD)
BBCW Productions. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004
Call Number: DT1949 .M35 M3623 2004 (Media Center)

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
By Nelson Mandela. Phelps-Stokes Institute for African, African-American, and American Indian Affairs, 1990
Call Number: DT1949 .M35 A3 1994
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