This question is perhaps more fitting for people who knowledgeable on the comic book rather than historians. Have you tried over at /r/Marvel?

"Many" parallels is a bit of an exaggeration, and I haven't heard any of the authors of the series say that it's conscious homage.

But one thing that shows up in a lot of successful liberation and/or civil rights struggles is that you have both a "good cop" and a "bad cop" on the oppressed side: a large, violent terrorist organization willing to do anything possible to make oppression expensive and dangerous to the oppressors, and an equally large non-violent resistance group. Having a Ghandi, or a MLK, or a Mandela, gives the oppressors someone palatable to surrender to if and when they realize that they can't win.

I'm not a credentialed expert in liberation history, but I can't think off hand of an example of such a struggle, lead from below, that didn't have both factions, both kinds of leaders.