Apartheid System: Rights Leader and John Lewis

apartheid system: He would have been 102, according to Georgia Asian. It comes a day after the death of John Lewis, the legendary civil rights leader and long-time U.S. Congressman, at the age of 80. Today is Nelson Mandela International Day 2020, as well as the South African icon's birthday. Mandela began fighting South Africa's racist apartheid system in the 1940s and continued into the 1950s and 1960s. He later became the first Black president of South Africa, creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a form of restorative justice. In 1964, he was sent to jail, where he remained for 27 years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.