While I am sure that almost all Native- Americans and African- Americans wanted to end the discrimination that was going on, not many people stepped forward to fight for their rights, and freedom. Rosa Parks, and Nat Turner were two African-Americans from two different periods of time, and both used different methods of fighting for what they believed in, but still worked to change how they were being treated. Crazy Horse was a Native-America

Instead of riding the “colored” elevator she would take the stairs, she wouldn’t drink from the “colored” water fountains, instead she would go thirsty, she would walk home instead of sitting in the back of buses. Finally, in 1943 Rosa decided to get herself involved in the NAACP, she became a secretary, arranging meetings, sent letters, answered phones, and did other secretarial work. The most important work that Mrs. Parks did was helping document cases of racial discrimination against African- Americans. (Hull 43)

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a young child, Rosa worked in fields, picking crops for her poor family. Parks’ grandfather, who hated white people, always discouraged Rosa from talking to or playing with the white children (Hull 26, 27). As Rosa grew up she began to silently protest the segregation laws that were in place.

About two years after Rosa Parks joined the NAACP a 15-year-old student named Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her fight to a white passenger. Rosa was very excited about using this case in federal court but because Colvin had resisted arrest, and because she was pregnant she was found unsuitable. Their next chance was in October of 1955 when an 18 year-old girl was arrested for the same reason, she was found unsuitable because her father was an alcoholic, and she lived in a shack. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks took action. (Hull 61, 62)

When Crazy Horse was about seventeen he prepared himself for his first battle. It was to be fought against the Arapaho tribe. Crazy Horse prepared himself just as he saw in the vision, the feather in his hair, and brown stone behind his ear, and sprinkled dust on him, and his horse. Into the second hour of the battle the Sioux were ready to retreat, but then Crazy Horse remembered his vision, and charged through Arapaho bullets, he then began killing them. Crazy Horse took his people to victory, but when Crazy Horse went to collect the scalps from the people he killed he was struck by an arrow, showing him that he was going against his vision, he would never take anything from a enemy. (Kallen 76).

Although Crazy Horse was victorious in that battle, it was not over. Americans wanted revenge, Crazy Horse relocated to the Black Hills to stay away from the Americans. When winter came around, and the army was still attacking the tribes people began to go hungry, and in April Crazy Horse received news that if he surrendered his people would be treated with mercy. As a good chief, he saw his starving people, and turned himself in. When he was sent to a reservation he didn’t realize that he would be put in jail, and when he was told he let out a war cry, and broke away from the soldiers that were restraining him. As Crazy Horse broke away a soldier stabbed him in the ribs; killing him. (Kallen 86)

Some topics in this essay:
Crazy Horse, Abdul- Jabbar, Rosa Parks, Nat Turner, African- Americans, Tuskegee Alabama, crazy horse, Claudette Colvin, Nat Tuner, Southampton Virginia, King Jr, nat turner, rosa parks, abdul- jabbar, african- americans, native americans, horse nat turner, crazy horse nat, horse nat, segregation laws, white people, dasilva 118, nat turner rosa, turner rosa parks, abdul- jabbar 54,