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Across
- 1. x, spokesman of the nation of islam
- 6. Shuttlesworth, led Birmingham campaigns in 1963
- 8. luther king jr, leader of civil rights movement
- 12. Marshall, first black supreme court justice
- 13. Rights Act (1964), outlawed segregation in public facilities and banned employment discrimination
- 14. Lewis, known as the “conscience of congress”
- 15. congress of racial equality
- 17. thousands of people would refuse to take the bus until they desegregated them
- 19. wilkens, executive director of naacp
Down
- 2. Philip Randolph, initiated the March on Washington
- 3. Colvin, first person to get arrested for not giving up a seat in the bus
- 4. Rock Nine, students that attend an integrated school but kept getting attacked
- 5. Friedan, sparking the women's movement with the book “the feminine mystique”
- 6. Lou Hamer, co-founded mississippi freedom democratic party
- 7. on Washington, place where Martin Luther King jr gave “I have a dream” speech
- 9. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- 10. Parks, arrested for not giving up a seat on a bus
- 11. Young, led national urban league
- 16. Bridges, escorted into school because of dangerous mobs outside of it
- 18. peaceful protest used to desegregate white only restaurants