Human Rights Hero 3

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary political leader and philanthropist who served as a president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. Nelson Mandela was a brave man the reason he was a human rights hero was because he stood up for his rights against apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.