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 Rolihlahla Mandela was the first black South African President and fought to stop racism. He was imprisoned in 1962, convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government.He served 27 years in prison, released in 1990 and went on to become president of South Africa.He died on December 6 2012.elson Mandela was a great hero of not only south Africa but around  the world. Nelson Mandela is a hero because he believed that one  day that the whole south Africa will s â¦ it together eat together  drink and live together as one no matter what color your skin is.