60's social issues

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Across
  1. 6. Iots broke out in this Los Angeles neighborhood in 1965
  2. 8. This structure was erected in 1961 to divide East and West
  3. 9. Protest movement targeting U.S. involvement in Vietnam
  4. 11. The 1965 civil rights march destination in Alabama
  5. 12. President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  6. 13. Nickname for antiwar activists in the 1960s
  7. 16. Strategy used in Selma, Washington, and other cities
  8. 21. Interracial bus rides to protest segregated travel
  9. 22. City where police clashed with protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention
  10. 25. First African American Supreme Court justice, appointed in 1967
  11. 26. Author of *Silent Spring*, sparking the environmental movement
  12. 28. A slogan symbolizing racial pride and self-determination in the 1960s
  13. 30. Resistance to this military requirement grew during Vietnam
  14. 31. Uprising in this Black neighborhood shocked America in 1965
  15. 32. Committee investigating alleged communism in the U.S.
  16. 33. Movement concerned with pollution and the environment
  17. 34. Antiwar candidate who challenged LBJ in the primaries
  18. 35. Activist student group that opposed the Vietnam War
  19. 39. Feminist movement pushing for gender equality
  20. 42. University where National Guard shot student protesters in 1970
  21. 43. 1963 demonstration where MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech
  22. 44. Emerging political voice of this ethnic group in the 1960s
  23. 46. City where police used dogs and hoses on protestors in 1963
Down
  1. 1. Landmark court case that began legal battles over abortion
  2. 2. Radical Black rights group founded in Oakland in 1966
  3. 3. A political movement of young people pushing for civil rights and antiwar reforms
  4. 4. Lyndon Johnson’s domestic reform programs
  5. 5. U.S. Special Forces often deployed in Vietnam
  6. 7. Great Society program for early childhood education
  7. 10. Militant civil rights leader assassinated in 1965
  8. 14. A major Cold War conflict that escalated U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia
  9. 15. What young men burned in protest of the Vietnam War
  10. 17. What women demanded in workplaces during the 1960s
  11. 18. Home of the hippie movement in San Francisco
  12. 19. Hallucinogenic drug popularized by Timothy Leary
  13. 20. Site of the Free Speech Movement in 1964
  14. 22. The movement to end racial segregation and discrimination
  15. 23. 1969 music festival symbolizing counterculture
  16. 24. Group founded to promote women's rights in 1966
  17. 27. Organization that legally challenged segregation laws
  18. 29. Volunteer group founded by JFK to help developing nations
  19. 34. Supreme Court ruling that reinforced rights during police arrests
  20. 36. Public gathering focused on peace and nonviolence
  21. 37. A social movement advocating women's equality that gained momentum in the 60s
  22. 38. Anti-communist alliance in Southeast Asia
  23. 40. Failed 1961 CIA invasion of Cuba
  24. 41. A key student organization in the civil rights movement
  25. 45. Won the 1968 presidential election on a law-and-order platform
  26. 47. Civil rights leader assassinated in 1968