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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 |Date(s) |Organization and/or Cause |Contribution | |Legislation, if any | | | | |A. Philip Randolph |1941 |Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which |His threat to march on Washington to protest | | | |fought Discrimination |discriminatory treatment caused former | | | | |President Franklin D. Roosevelt to react with | | | | |new policies on job discrimination. | |B. Linda Brown/ NAACP |1954 |Brown v. Board of Education, challenged |Made public school segregation illegal in the | | | |segregated schools through 14th Amendment |United States. | |C. Rosa Parks |1955 |Refuse to give up her seat at the front of the |Her refusal began a yearlong bus boycott that | | | |bus, beginning of bus boycott |ended seat segregation. | | |1955-1963 |Southern Christian Leadership Conference; |Organized marches that demanded desegregation | |D. Dr. Martin Luther | |fought for same rights and privileges as whites|and fair employment; The bus boycott ended | |King Jr. | | |segregated seating. | | |1966 |Black Panther Party |Used violence to overcome oppression. Also | |Huey Newton | | |organized food driving in black community. | | | | |Their aggressive tactics cause government to | | | | |revise the weapons law. | |James Meredith |1966 |African American voting rights |Begin a one man march to get African Americans | | | | |to vote. | |Thurgood Marshall |1954 |NAACP Attorney fought equal rights of African |Argued in the Brown v. Board of Education that | | | |Americans. First Africa American Supreme Court |segregated schools were not equal. | | | |Judge. | | |Malcolm X |1964 |Pan Africanism |Help organize the Nation of Islam. He called | | | | |for black people to find their own identity. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Part II Once you complete the matrix, use the space below to write a 75- to 100-word response describing the role civil disobedience played in the Civil Rights Movement. Civil disobedience was a tactic use in India then adopted by African American during the Civil Rights Movement. Civil disobedience was a nonviolent way for African Americans and supporters of the Civil Rights Movement to take a stand against injustice. People who committed civil disobedience were usually willing to accept suffering without retaliation and fought forces of evil, not the people who were doing the evil. Civil disobedience showed the government that some laws were unjust and until they were changed African Americans would break those laws.