Long Beach is part of Los Angeles County. Long Beach has 50.29 square miles of land area and 1.14 square miles of water area. As of 2010, the total Long Beach population is 462,257, which has grown 0.16% since 2000.
It was Nov. 9, 1970, and the prisoner was Nelson Mandela, held on Robben Island for his leading role in planning bomb attacks. A visit to a prison has a significance difficult to put into words, Mandela wrote in a letter to a friend in 1987.
Nelson Mandela was a prisoner in South Africa during apartheid. Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. After apartheid Mandela was elected South Africa' â¦ s new president.elson Mandela wanted to make his country, South Africa, a symbol of reconciliation. He went from being a political prisoner in the apartheid state of South Africa to former P â¦ resident of South Africa after its political revolution.