Eth125_Appendix_C

Axia College Material 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. | | | |Underground Railroad |She was able to help free the slaves from the | |Harriet Tubman | | |south and send them to the north, with the help| | | | |of some White Americans (Abolitionists) and | | | | |African Americans. | |Abraham Lincoln |1863 |President of the United States |Signed the Emancipation Proclamation and freed | | | | |the slaves | |Booker T. Washington |1895 |Politics is Accommodation called for whites to |Booker’s accommodating attitude ensured his | | | |make an investment in the African American race|popularity with White Americans, which allowed | | | |by educating them |him to become the spokesman for African | | | | |Americans for the next 20 years. | |W.E.B. Du Bois |1905 || Niagara’s Movement advocated The Talented |Educated African Americans in the politics of | | | |Tenth |protest which started the NAACP | |CORE |1942 |Fight discrimination with non-violence action |Used sit-ins to open many restaurants for many | | | | |black patrons throughout the United States | | |1944 |Segregation against interstate transportation || Irene refused to give up her seat on an | |Irene Morgan | | |interstate Greyhound bus to a white person. | | | | |This caused desegregation on interstate buses. | |Rosa Parks |1955 |Montgomery Improvement Association-defined the || This helped to organize the Montgomery | | | |law by refusing to give her seat on the bus to |Improvement Association. It also led to the Bus| | | |a white person. |Boycott that helped African Americans use | | | | |non-violence actions to obtain the end of | | | | |segregated seating | |Martin Luther King Jr. |1955 |Wanted African Americans to have the same |He boycotted buses for a year that ended | | | |rights and privileges as whites; Southern |segregated seating. He led marches demanding | | | |Christian Leadership Conference. |fair employment, desegregating public | | | | |facilities and the release of 3,000 people who | | | | |had been arrested for protesting which led to | | | | |the 24th amendment. | |President Lyndon Baines|1964 |President of United States |Ratified the 24th amendment outlawing the poll | |Johnson | | |tax that stopped African American from voting | |James Meredith |1966 |To encourage African Americans to vote |Started a one man march to encourage African | | | | |Americans to forget their fears and vote. He | | | | |was later killed but others kept the march | | | | |going for him. | 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 played a very important role in the Civil Rights Movement. African Americans and sometimes whites had a choice in which laws were legal and which laws were not. As long as it did not consist of violence it was civil disobedience. 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 was not about humiliating but rather trying to win friendship and understanding.