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.
A Journey Through Apartheid in Nelson Mandelaâs South Africa. Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela greet supporters as Nelson Mandela is freed from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl in the Cape in 1990. Mandela spent 27 years in prison, many of them on Robben Island. Protest against Chris Haniâs assassination, 1993.