Leaders and Legislation of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
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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
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
Founder of the Underground Railroad
After escaping slavery, she was inspired to help others do the same and started the Underground Railroad.
Rosa Parks
NAACP member
Her arrest for not giving up her seat on the bus led to the buses being desegregated in 1956
Abraham Lincoln
United States President
Abolished slavery by signing the Emancipation Proclamation and freeing the slaves
Stokely Carmichael
Leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at Shaw University
Paved the way for young blacks to have a place in the Civil Rights Movement
James Meredith
First black student to enroll in the University of Mississippi. Encouraged African Americans to vote
Started a one man march for voting rights and was later shot
Martin Luther King Jr.
1955-56 & 1963
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Boycotted buses 1955-1956
Led several marches and rallys for equal rights
Lyndon B Johnson
United States President
Outlawed the poll tax that stopped blacks from voting
Harry Truman
United States President
Signs Executive Order 9981 for equal treatment of armed forces regardless of color, race religion
Dwight D Eisenhower
United States President
9 black students are prevented from entering a school in Little Rock Arkansas and the president