By promoting racial harmony, a national peace treaty, and ultimately multiracial democracy, his administration aimed to eradicate the legacy of apartheid. He was the head of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997 and was a socialist and African nationalist by ideology.
By using peaceful resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other types of legalized discrimination, which primarily targeted African Americans, he expanded civil rights for people of color in the United States.
Political activist who established the Green Belt Movement, a non-governmental group dedicated to women's rights, environmental preservation, and tree planting.













