Question

identify leaders of the civil rights and black power movements and their contributions to their respectives causes?

how did these social pioneers forge the way for this important ratifications?

what legislation was relevant during these critical times?

This looks like the prompt for a major research paper. This site will give you a start with your research.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580647/Civil_Rights_Movement_in_the_United_States.html

martin luther king was a civil right leader his organization and/or cause was an American Civil? what was martin luther king contribution?

Look up his name on your search engine. I did and found these sites:

http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/king.html
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I hope this helps. Thanks for asking.

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