IB History Year 1 Classwork Assignment: Civil Rights Movement Grassroots Organizers

Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and Anne Moody were all intimately involved with the civil rights
struggle, though their names are not as well known as Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.
Read the selections below (links provided). Do you think such "grass-roots" organizers played
a more or less crucial role in the movement? Or is it possible to rank one above the other?
After reading these selections, do you agree that the civil rights movement would be better
described as plural movements? Why or why not?

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/flhamer.html
http://www.ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=19&contentid=9

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/books/anne-moody-author-of-coming-of-age-inmississippi-dies-at-74.html?_r=0