... 5, 1962, he was arrested again for provoking people to strike and for leaving South Africa without a passport. He remained in the maximum-security Robben Island prison for 27 years, until secret talks with President F.W. de Klerk initiated his release. After his liberation Mandela traveled to Western governments, urging them to maintain economic sanctions against South Africa and to raise funds to ... tactics were put to their most severe test in Birmingham, Alabama during a mass protest for hair hiring practices, the establishment of a biracial committee, and the desegregation of depar...

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