Nelson Mandela has fought for equal rights between the races (white and coloured), and over the years he has become a role model for millions of people in the world. Nelson Mandela has fought against the apartheid government in South Africa. The apartheid government was created for the white people to keep the racial groups separate. These “racial groups” are white and coloured people being separate. And this government was created so the white people would have more advantages than the coloured people. So coloured people didn’t have so many rights. They couldn’t even sit in a buss without a white person telling them to, “move away from your seat”. When Nelson Mandela heard of the apartheid government he fought it was wrong, and he meant that everyone should have equal rights. He didn’t care what the colour of someone’s skin was, if you are a human you will be treated equally as everyone else. There was a group called, “Anti-apartheid”, and Mandela was known to be the leader of the anti-apartheid. Mandela wanted to fight for what he thought was right. And because of this, he was prisoned for 27 years. Throughout the years Nelson Mandela had many people following him. He then became a symbol for both the white and coloured people, and became a great role model throughout the years. …show more content…
She was very known after the famous bus boycotting in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. She stood up against the “white man”. She was refusing to giving up her seat to a white man when the bus was full. It was stated in the law that she had to give up her seat if a white person came up to her in a bus. This action of Rosa Parks resulted into a bit of drama. This is similar to what Nelson Mandela did. And after what she did on the bus, she became a role model, just as