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Mandela emerged from a village to become defining figure

Born in 1918, Nelson Mandela became one of South Africa's first black lawyers and later devoted himself to ending apartheid. He came to personify struggle: a political prisoner who became a president and saved his nation. Scott Pelley reports.
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