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[ cheers and applause ] >> and that was it was recognized and over the course of several weeks, i met my brothers and aunts and uncles. i traveled to the village from my family was from. i saw the graves of my father and my grandfather, and i learned things about their lives that i could have never learned through books, and in many ways their lives offered snap shots of kenya's history, but they also told us something about the future. my grandfather, for example, he was a cook for the british, and as i subsequent through some of his -- as i went through some of his belongings i went up count...

Brand, defined burning his passbook, a document the authorities use to control the movement of south africa's black population. >> the africans require want to franchise on the basis of one man, one vote. they want political independence. >> reporter: that simple demand and the methods he took to fight for come mock see he and others tried for treegen and sabotage, acts punishment by day. he got life in prison anyway. one of the most countries and isolated prisons. another political prisoner remembers the first time he saw mandela in the prison yard. >> i could see from the way he walked and...

The fact that in his home country he had to carry a pass book. he had no rights. he couldn't vote. he was ostracized and it was against the law to have his picture. he couldn't touch his wife's hand for 16 of 27 years in jail and yet he came out advocating reconciliation and negotiating with his direct oppressors and tried to be inclusive. the way he did it was equal to what he did and both of them are incomparable in our lifetime. growing up as an activist, it tempered a lot of us that got to know people that were close and harry belafonte would teach us the mandela way was not only to fight ...

Life. he was born in the row motor hills of south africa's eastern cape. he was given the name which means troublemaker. he was only given the name nelson by a school teacher later on. after moving to johannesburg and studying law, mandela's trouble making politics began. and as a boxer he became adept at picking fights and sparring with the apartheid authorities which had increased its oppression against the black population. it was then that he made the crucial decision to take up an armed struggle, launching african national congress's armed wing. he was militant and a fire brand. definely ...

Siz we which means troublemaker. he was given the name nelson by a teacher later on. after studying law, his trouble making politics ticks began, and as a boxer he became adept at picking fights and sparring with the an hart hide authority which had increased its oppression against the black population. it was there that mandela made the crucial decision to take up an arms struggle launch the armed wing. he was militant and a fire brandie fointly burning his passbook, a dred the document the an hart hide authorities used to control the movement of south africa's black population. >> the africa...