Like South Africa, the memory of Nelson Mandela lives on: Sheila Dow Ford

andiba is now gone. South Africa lives on. Mandiba, its native son, lives on. By Sheila Dow Ford Nelson Mandela, the great South African leader, had a profound impact upon the lives of young Americans during the 1970s and '80's. We, too, had a profound impact on his, helping to secure his freedom and the end of apartheid through our efforts to bring the scourge of racial subjugation to the attention of the world. Sheila Dow Ford Mandela’s incarceration on Robben Island for challenging the South African system of apartheid, in which individual status was based on an exclusionary system of race, blacks at the lowest level, mixed race, Indians and whites at higher levels, shocked the...