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spazzmann

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Fri May 10, 2013, 10:24 AM May 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on May 10, 1994

Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president. He had won the country’s first election in which all South Africans could vote, regardless of race. Mandela had spent nearly three decades imprisoned for his part in the struggle to attain political and civil rights for black and colored citizens. bit.ly/13K7Kr8

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