On Oct. 4 President Nelson Mandela of South Africa visited the Library during a reception sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus (see LC Information Bulletin, Oct. 17). On Dec. 1 Gay J. McDougall, executive director of the Human Rights Law Group in Washington, spoke at LC on her experiences as the only American on the South African Independent Electoral Commission (see LC Information Bulletin, Dec. 26). The following bibliography, compiled by Mattye Laverne Page, area specialist, African Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, was compiled for those who wish to learn more about Mr. Mandela.
The following books from the LC collections are a selection on the life of Nelson Mandela, his work in the African National Congress, and his role in the "new South Africa" as its president.
President Mandela was born in 1918 in the Transkei and grew up in a Thembu royal household. During childhood and adolescence, he was groomed to eventually become a village chief, but he did not always conform to expected patterns of behavior. He began college in 1938, was suspended after two years for organizing and leading a student boycott and completed his studies by correspondence.
In 1944 Mr. Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest (founded 1912) political organization in sub- Saharan Africa. He was a founding member of the ANC's dynamic and militant Youth League and was elected its president in 1950.
Periodic banning and arrests by the government became a part of his life when he was arrested in 1952 for the first time, the year he also began his law practice. He had organized and led the Defiance Campaign for which he was forced to resign from the ANC and was banned from attending any gatherings for five years. In 1956 he and 156 other leaders were arrested and charged with "high treason," but all were acquitted after a 4 1/2-year trial. Later, in 1961, after organizing the landmark All-In African Conference, he was threatened with arrest but evaded capture.
As the elusive "Black Pimpernel," he traveled inside South Africa and abroad for 17 months. Caught and arrested on July 11, 1963, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of plotting to overthrow the government by violence. After 27 years, on Feb. 11, 1990, he was freed and on May 10, 1994, after the first free election in South African history, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was sworn in as president of the Republic of South Africa.
Benson, Mary.
Nelson Mandela : the man and the movement / Mary Benson ; foreword by
Desmond M. Tutu. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c1986. 268
p., [12] p. of plates : ill.
DT779.95.M36B46 1986
Bibliography: p. 255-[257].
Denenberg, Barry.
Nelson Mandela : "no easy walk to freedom" : a biography /
by Barry Denenberg. New York : Scholastic, c1991. 164 p. : ill., maps.
DT1949.M35D46 1991
Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-157) and index.
Juvenile literature.
Fashagba, Joseph A.
The life history of Nelson Mandela and South Africa / Joseph Ajayi Fashagba.
1st ed. Toronto, Ont., Canada : Fash Enterprises, 1990. 586 p. : ill.
(some col.)
DT1949.M35F37 1990
Feinberg, Brian.
Nelson Mandela / Brian Feinberg. New York : Chelsea Juniors, c1992. 76
p. : ill. (Junior world biographies)
DT1949.M35F45 1992 Juvenile literature.
Hughes, Libby.
Nelson Mandela : voice of freedom / Libby Hughes. 1st ed. New York :
Dillon Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell
Macmillan International, c1992. 144 p. : ill. (A People in focus book)
DT1949.M35H84 1992
Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-142) and index. Juvenile
literature.
Mandela, Winnie.
Part of my soul went with him / Winnie Mandela ; edited by Anne Benjamin
and adapted by Mary Benson. 1st American ed. New York : Norton, 1985,
c1984. 163 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
DT1949.M36A3 1985
Includes taped interviews of Winnie Mandela, letters to her from her
husband, and other documents.
Meer, Fatima.
Higher than hope : the authorized biography of Nelson Mandela / Fatima
Meer. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper & Row, [1990] xix, 426 p.
DT1949.M35M44 1990 Reprint. Originally published: London : H. Hamilton,
1988.
Speeches and Writings of Mandela
Mandela, Nelson.
How far we slaves have come! : South Africa and Cuba in today's world
/ Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro. 1st ed. New York : Pathfinder, 1991.
83 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
DT1805.C9M36 1991 Speeches marking the 38th anniversary of the Cuban
revolution.
Mandela, Nelson.
The Mandela document : the full text of the document presented by Nelson
Mandela to PW Botha in July, 1989. Lusaka, Zambia : ANC, 1990. 16 p.
DT1757.M355 1990
Mandela, Nelson.
Nelson Mandela : the struggle is my life ; his speeches and writings
brought together with historical documents and accounts of Mandela
in prison by fellow-prisoners. 3rd ed. New York : Pathfinder, 1990.
vi, 281 p. : ill.
DT1949.M35A3 1990
Mandela, Nelson.
Nelson Mandela speaks : speeches, statements, and articles / by Nelson
Mandela. London : Publicity and Information Bureau, African National
Congress, [1970?] 128 p. : ill. (South African studies ; 4)
DT779.95.M36A56
Mandela, Nelson.
Nelson Mandela, speeches 1990 : "intensify the struggle to abolish
apartheid" / [edited by Greg McCartan ; photos by Margrethe Siem].
1st ed. New York, NY, U.S.A. : Pathfinder, 1990. 74 p. : ill., maps.
DT1949.M35A5 1990
Mandela, Nelson.
Nelson Mandela, symbol of resistance and hope for a free South Africa
: selected speeches since his release / edited by E.S. Reddy. New Delhi
: Namedia Foundation : Sterling Publishers, c1990. xx, 121 p., [16]
p. of plates : ill.
DT1949.M35M36 1990
Mandela, Nelson.
No easy walk to freedom : articles, speeches and trial addresses of Nelson
Mandela / with a new foreword by Ruth First.
London : Heinemann Educational, 1973. xiv, 189 p. : ports. (African writers
series)
DT763.M35 1973
Mandela, Nelson.
Walk the last mile with us : Nelson Mandela's speeches in Ireland. [Dublin]
: Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, c1990. 35 p. : ill.
DT1949.M35A3 1990b
African National Congress
The Fifties people of South Africa : the lives of some ninety- five
people who were influential in South Africa during the fifties, a period
which saw the first stirrings of the coming revolution / compiled and
edited by Jurgen Schadeberg ; with photos by Bob Gosani ... [et al.].
1st ed. South Africa : Bailey's African Photo Archives, 1987. 260 p.
: ill.
DT1058.B53F54 1987
From protest to challenge : a documentary history of African politics
in South Africa, 1882-1964. Edited by Thomas Karis and Gwendolen M. Carter.
Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, [1972]-77. 4 v. (Hoover
Institution publications, 89, 122-123, 161)
DT763.F73
Hargrove, Jim.
Nelson Mandela : South Africa's silent voice of protest / by Jim Hargrove.
Chicago : Childrens Press, c1989. 135 p. : ill. (People of distinction
biographies)
DT779.95.M36H36 1989
Bibliography: p. 128.
Juvenile literature.
Kallen, Stuart A.
The struggle into the 1990's : a history of Black people from 1968 to
the present / written by Stuart Kallen ; [edited by Rosemary Wallner].
Edina, Minn. : Abdo & Daughters, c1990. 63 p. : ill. (Black history
and the Civil Rights Movement)
E185.615.K27 1990
Nelson Mandela : p. 41-57.
Juvenile literature.
Kumalo, Alf.
Mandela : echoes of an era / [by Alf Kumalo ; text by Es'kia Mphahlele].
London, England : Penguin Books ; New York, N.Y., USA : Viking Penguin,
c1990. 160 p. : ill.
DT1949.M35K86 1990
Mandela, Tambo, and the African National Congress : the struggle against
apartheid, 1948-1990 : a documentary survey / edited by Sheridan Johns,
R. Hunt Davis, Jr. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
xvii, 353 p.
DT1757.M36 1991
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-334) and index.
Nelson Mandela and the rise of the ANC / compiled and edited by Jurgen
Schadeberg ; photographs by Ian Berry ... [et al.] ; text by Benson Dyantyi
... [et al.]. Parklands [South Africa] : J. Ball : Ad. Donker, 1990.
189 p. : ill.
DT1949.M35N45 1990
Nelson Mandela, his life in the struggle : a pictorial history. London
: International Defence & Aid Fund for Southern Africa, c1988. [18]
p. : chiefly ill.
DT779.95.M36N45 1988
New Era in South Africa
Chhabra, Hari S.
South Africa : one year after Mandela's release / Hari Sharan Chhabra
; foreword, Nelson Mandela. New Delhi : Africa Publications (India),
c1991. vi, 149 p.
DT1970.C5 1991
Daniel, Jamie.
Nelson Mandela : speaking out for freedom in South Africa / Jamie Daniel,
Benjamin Pogrund. North American ed. Milwaukee : G. Stevens Children's
Books, 1992. 68 p. : ill. (some col.) (People who made a difference)
DT1949.M35P65 1992
Includes bibliographical references (p. 60) and index.
Juvenile literature.
Gastrow, Shelagh.
Who's who in South African politics / edited by Shelagh Gastrow. 3rd
rev. ed. London ; New York : Hans Zell Publishers, 1990. xvi, 368 p.
: ill.
DT1774.G37 1990
Includes bibliographical references.
Mandela, Nelson.
Nelson Mandela speaks : forging a Democratic, nonracial South Africa
/ by Nelson Mandela ; edited by Steve Clark. New York : London : Pathfinder
Press, 1993. 296 p. : ill.
DT1756.M34 1993
Includes speeches, interviews and letters covering Feb. 11, 1990-July
10, 1993.
Ottaway, David.
Chained together : Mandela, De Klerk, and the struggle to remake South
Africa / David Ottaway. 1st ed. New York : Times Books, c1993. xi,
291 p. : map.
DT1970.O87 1993
Ottaway, Marina.
South Africa : the struggle for a new order / Marina Ottaway. Washington,
D.C. : Brookings Institution, c1993. xi, 250 p.
DT1970.O88 1993