Primary

Alexander, Neville. Political activist. 25 Oct. 2008

<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/interviews/>

This interview is helpful because this man was in prison at the same time as Mandela.  So they had to go through the struggles together.  It is also helpful because you get his view as part of the younger crowd.

Asmal, Kadar, David Chidester, and Wilmot James. Nelson Mandela In His Own Words, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 2003

This book was helpful because Mandela talks about his life from being in jail to becoming the first president of South Africa.  As well as his early childhood to important events.

            Bizos, George. Lawyer: 30 Oct. 2008

<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/interviews/>

This interview is helpful because it is a primary source.  As well as, he was Mandela’s lawyer so he knows everything that went on in Mandela’s life.  He was also a friend and a common visitor.

Brink, Andre. “Nelson Mandela.” Times. 13 April, 1998: 1-4.

<http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mandela.html>

This online article is helpful, because it gives you insight into his life.  Mandela was the Time Man of the Year in 1993.  It also has some good quotes.  Also, this was helpful because it was an article in the Times magazine.

Carlin, John. Playing the Enemy. New York: The Penguin Press, 2008

This book is about Mandela and a rugby team called the Springboks.  It talks about how with this team winning games, it brought a country together, now matter what skin color.  It discusses how Mandela believed if they won the World Cup it could bring the nation together even when everybody else thought he was crazy.

            Kathrada, Ahmad. Activist. 25 Oct. 2008

            <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/interviews/>

This interview is a primary source.  It is helpful, because it talks about when Ahmad went underground and Mandela helped him out.  Mr. Kathrada was also at Robben Island at the same time.

Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.

What is helpful about this book is that Mandela wrote it so it is a primary source.  As well as, there are quotes that could be useful to get my point across.  Also, you get to see his life through his eyes, and the facts are straight.

Mandela, Nelson. Mandela. Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1994

This book is also helpful in the same way as to Long Walk to Freedom, because Mandela wrote it.  Also since it is an illustrated autobiography, there are many pictures, useful to my display.

Meer, Fatima. Higher than Hope. New York: Harper & Row, 1988

This book is a biography about Nelson Mandela’s reach for higher hope.  It helped me because it is so narrative you learn man things from it.  In addition to that, it also has primary sources such as letters that were written by Mandela.  It also helps that she was a great friend of the Mandela’s and she was anti- apartheid.

Nelson Rolihlahla MANDELA. 28 Oct. 2008

<http://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html>

This website gives a brief biography of Mandela as well as a profile of him. It was helpful because it gives background information that I didn’t know, such as his favorite meals.

Secondary

Hanretta, John Ph.D. “Re: History Day. E-mail to Ehren Gofran Jan. 6 2009

He is a history professor at Stanford University.  He showed some books and other sources to check out to find more information on Mandela.  He told me interviews are not the best way to gather your information.

Haskins, Jim. Winnie Mandela Life of Struggle. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988

This book is a biography about Winnie Mandela and what she had to go through being Nelson Mandela’s wife.  It talks about the letters Nelson and Winnie gave to each other while Mandela was in jail.

Lodge, Tom. Mandela A Critical Life. Oxford: University Press, 2006

This book talks about how Mandela rose to the top of the African National Congress and became an icon of South Africa.  This book was helpful because the author has connections with the ANC so he knew what was going on.

Mallaby, Sebastian. After Apartheid. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1992

This book talks mainly about the apartheid, which Mandela was against.  The apartheid is the separation of whites from blacks in South Africa.  It also talks about what the African National Congress (ANC) did to gain its rights.

Maltz, Leora. Nelson Mandela. San Diego: Green Haven Press, 2004

This book talks about how Mandela has made an impact on today’s generations and many to come.  It gives essential background information.  As well as some primary documents.

“Mandela’s Moral Legacy.” Csmonitor.com. 1999. The Christian Science Monitor. 06 Jan. 2009

<http://www.csmonitor.com/1999/0510/p9s1.html>

This website was helpful, because it talked about Mandela’s legacy and what he did to get that.  Plus it gives a brief biography of Mandela, and it talks about the ups and downs he had to go through to be where he is right now.

Meredith, Martin. Nelson Mandela. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997

This book has interviews with Mandela that Meredith did while writing this book.  It also has good quotes that are helpful in my project.

Nelson Mandela. Laureate. 30 Oct. 2008

<http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1993/mandela-bio.html>

This website helped me by giving me other sources to look up, to get more information.  Also, this site has a great deal of information that I can use in my project.  In addition to that, it talks abundantly about how he got the Nobel Prize.

Nelson Mandela Biography. 04 Jan. 2009

<http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/nelson-mandela/index.htm>

This website is supportive because it gives good information about Mandela.  The way the information is given, is in such an excellent way, I used it on my website.

Results for Nelson Mandela. 15 Oct. 2008

http://www.answers.com/topic/nelson-mandela

This site is helpful because it gives you a biography of his life and his political life.  As well as, it gives many useful quotes.  Lastly, it answers any other questions I would have.

Rosenbaum, Arthur. “Re: History Day.” E-mail to Ehren Gofran. 06 Jan. 2009

He is part of the department of history at Claremont McKenna College.  He showed me other resources that I could use for my project.  As well as, he suggested that I try Pomona College, where they have an African historian.

Timeline: Life and times of Nelson Mandela. 04 Jan. 2009

<http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL183156020080718?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0>

This online source was helpful because it had a timeline that was not too long and not too short.  So I put it on my website.  It had good information yet it was also brief at the same time.

Ungar, Sanford. “Nelson Mandela.” World Book Encyclopedia. 2008

This was helpful to me because it gave a brief biography of Nelson Mandela in great detail.  It also helped me because it introduced me to Nelson Mandela in the African National Congress (ANC).