Leaders and Legislation of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements

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Appendix C

Leaders and Legislation of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements

Identify leaders of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and their contributions to their respective causes. How did these social pioneers forge the way for this important ratification? What legislation was relevant during these critical times?

Part I

Complete the following matrix by identifying 7 to 10 leaders or legislative events from both the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. The first leader is provided as a model.

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.

Harriet Tubman 1941 known for the freeing the slaves through an underground railroad. With the help from some white people and some other freed blacks she helped to free slaves from the South to send them North were they could be free.

Abraham Lincoln 1863 Known as the 16th President of the United State he was responsible for signing the Emancipation Proclamation in order to free the slaves.

The Congress of Racial Equality known as Core 1942 fought discrimination with non-violent direct action they used sit-ins to open restaurants for many blacks across the country.

Thurgood Marshall May 17, 1954 He was an NAACP attorney and he later became the nation’s first Supreme Court black judge. He was known for the attorney in the case of Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas. The courts unanimously concluded that segregation in public educational facilities was unnecessary, that case began the desegregation process in the school system to begin.

Rosa Parks 1955 she was known as...