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==Pre-imprisonment career==

==Pre-imprisonment career==

===Work experience, early political activism===

===Work experience, early political activism===

In Johannesburg, Mandela was introduced to Walter Sisulu, a [[real estate]] businessman and a prominent member of the [[African National Congress]] (ANC); <ref name="NYT obituary"/><ref name="AllAfrica"/> Sisulu arranged for Mandela to be articled to a white attorney, Lazar Sidelsky, while Mandela studied [[law]] part time at University of the Witwatersrand - though he would leave the school in 1948.<ref name="independent biography"/><ref name="official biography"/> Mandela began to follow Anton Lembede; he, along with Mandela, Tambo and Sisulu organized the radical A.N.C. Youth League, alienating some white sympathizers with their strong black national rhetoric.<ref name="NYT obituary"/><ref name="independent biography"/><ref name="AllAfrica"/> The Youth League was also critical of the "old guard" leadership of the ANC.<ref name="AllAfrica"/>  

In Johannesburg, Mandela was introduced to Walter Sisulu, a [[real estate]] businessman and a prominent member of the [[African National Congress]] (ANC) - a black liberation party opposed the extreme segregation called [[apartheid]]; <ref name="NYT obituary"/><ref name="AllAfrica"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/topics/apartheid|title=Apartheid|work=History|publisher=A&E Television Networks, LLC|accessdate=December 18, 2013|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> Sisulu arranged for Mandela to be articled to a white attorney, Lazar Sidelsky, while Mandela studied [[law]] part time at University of the Witwatersrand - though he would leave the school in 1948.<ref name="independent biography"/><ref name="official biography"/> Mandela began to follow Anton Lembede; he, along with Mandela, Tambo and Sisulu organized the radical A.N.C. Youth League, alienating some white sympathizers with their strong black national rhetoric.<ref name="NYT obituary"/><ref name="independent biography"/><ref name="AllAfrica"/> The Youth League was also critical of the "old guard" leadership of the ANC.<ref name="AllAfrica"/>  

{{QuoteBox2|quote=“I was angry at the white man, not at racism ... While I was not prepared to hurl the white man into the sea, I would have been perfectly happy if he climbed aboard his steamships and left the continent of his own volition.”|source=Nelson Mandela<ref name="NYT obituary"/>|align=left|width=300px}}

{{QuoteBox2|quote=“I was angry at the white man, not at racism ... While I was not prepared to hurl the white man into the sea, I would have been perfectly happy if he climbed aboard his steamships and left the continent of his own volition.”|source=Nelson Mandela<ref name="NYT obituary"/>|align=left|width=300px}}

At this time, Mandela fell strongly onto the side of Africanism is the liberation debate between Africanism and nonracialism  

At this time, Mandela fell strongly onto the side of Africanism is the liberation debate between Africanism and nonracialism