Ethics App C

Part I

Leader and Associated Legislation, if any | Date(s) | Organization and/or Cause | Contribution |

A. Philip Randolph | 1941 | Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which fought Discrimination | His threat to march on Washington to protest discriminatory treatment caused former President Franklin D. Roosevelt to react with new policies on job discrimination. |

Martin Luther King Jr. | 1957 | Civil Rights/ Desegregation | Led Civil Rights movement, led marches, demanding fair employment, desegregation of public areas, and release of prisoner marchers. “ I had a Dream” Speech. |

Rosa Parks | 1955 | Civil Rights/ Desegregation | Refused to give her seat up to a white man on crowded bus. Her defiance led to organization of the Montgomery Improvement Association. |

Harriet Tubman | 1850 | Underground Railroad | Along with other blacks and sympathetic whites, developed the underground railroad for slaves to escape to freedom in Canada and the North. |

Huey P Newton | 1960 | Black Panthers | Organized Black Panther Party and charged police brutality and corruption among Government officials |

Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | US Government, President | Issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in the Confederacy |

James Meredith | 1966 | Civil Rights | Carried out one person march in Jackson, MS encouraging African Americans to overcome their fears and vote for Voting Rights Act |

Bobby Seale | 1960 | Black Panthers | Organized Black Panther Party and charged police brutality and corruption among Government officials |

Harry Truman | 1948 | US Government, President | Issued an executive order to desegregate the Armed Forces. |

Linda Brown | 1954 | Desegregation | Took suit on Board of Education to US Supreme Court for desegregation of Public schools claiming it is unconstitutional for the public schools to be segregated. Led to desegregation of Public Schools |