The Nobel Peace Prize winner and South Africa black liberation icon was 95.
Protesters demonstrate in Johannesburg, South Africa, demanding Mandela’s release. (Dennis Lee Royle / Associated Press)
Mandela and South African President F.W. de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 1993. (Jon Eeg / Associated Press)
Presidents Mandela and Clinton look out from a cell on Robben Island in Cape Town’s Table Bay in 1998. Mandela was imprisoned on the island for 13 years. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)
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Mandela attends a service at First United Methodist Church in Los Angeles in 1993. (Axel Koester / For The Times)
Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg after the publication of his book, “Conversations With Myself,” with a foreword written by President Obama. (Debbie Yazbek / AFP/Getty Images)
Queen Elizabeth II pays a state visit to South Africa in 1995, the first by a ruling British monarch since 1947. (Adil Bradow / Associated Press)