11th Grade Contemporary History Midterm

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Across
  1. 3. City considered the most segregated in the U.S., according to Martin Luther King Jr.
  2. 4. Laws that enforced racial segregation and denied African Americans equal opportunities.
  3. 6. Period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding and integrating freed African Americans into society.
  4. 9. Lead attorney in Brown v. Board of Education and the first African American Supreme Court justice.
  5. 11. President who sent federal troops to enforce desegregation at Little Rock Central High School.
  6. 14. Birmingham police commissioner known for his brutal tactics against civil rights protesters.
Down
  1. 1. City where a protest was sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest that successfully desegregated public transportation.
  2. 2. Landmark Supreme Court case that overturned "Separate but Equal."
  3. 5. Group of African American students who integrated Central High School in Arkansas.
  4. 7. Organization co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois to fight for civil rights and end segregation.
  5. 8. Supreme Court case that established the "Separate but Equal" doctrine.
  6. 10. Teenager whose murder and open-casket funeral galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.
  7. 12. Last name of the advocate for vocational training and economic self-reliance.
  8. 13. Last name of the civil rights leader and early NAACP founder who coined "Talented Tenth."