African american leaders associated the republican party with abraham lincoln, emancipation, and apex

The Freedmen's Bureau

The Freedmen's Bureau formally remembered as the Bureau of Refugees was instituted in 1865 by Congress to assist the millions of ancient black laborers and impoverished whites in the South in the consequence of the Civil War. Many white Southerners, examined the Bureau's legitimacy, which sparks the ethnic clash in the South and finally led to the collapse of the Bureau.

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do

dylan has written many enduring songs and he has received several awards for his musical achievement;  

any written work with artistic value can be considered literature; especially if such work is publicly recognized, and has had importance and endurance among people; whether is poetry or fiction or drama or even criticism, since it's the transcendence and representation of a culture, language or people in a period of time to more people, using letters (words), regardless the subject.

the nobel prize in literature is given to authors from any country based on a body of work as a whole that inspires and nurses the life of humanity.  

and the work of bob dylan matches that description, therefore is well deserved since he'd created new poetic expressions within the american song tradition, that has inspired and influenced the lives of many people, not only withing the united stated but worldwide as well.