American Civil Rights

3. One of the two African American athletes to raise the black power salute during the olympics.
5. An american laborer who fought for latino american civil rights using strategies inspired by Gandhi.
6. A renowned speaker of the civil rights movement, well known for his rather violent views towards his oppressors.
8. The assassin of Malcolm X.
14. An african american man who was arrested for reckless driving and sparked the watts riots.
16. An outfit primarily worn by communities of color in the 1940s composed of a long coat and high waisted trousers.
17. A week of riots caused by the drowning of an African American teen and blatant injustice by the police.
18. A massacre in a town in Louisiana carried out by white supremacists leading to the deaths of upwards of 157 African Americans.
20. Number of casualties from the race riots in Chicago.

1. Infamous white supremacist group responsible for several racially charged tragedies.
2. A racially charged massacre that took place in a town in Oklahoma where 36 African Americans were killed by a group of white supremacists.
4. A civil rights movement started in 2013 still going on today that received a recent burst in popularity and support.
7. The date of the Tulsa Race Massacre, also my birthday.
9. A group co-founded by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta meant to free oppressed laborers in America and give them deserved freedoms.
10. A racist bombing of a baptist church that resulted in the deaths of 4 young black girls.
11. Riots that took place in a los angeles neighborhood motivated by an opposition to police brutality.
12. An african american victim of police brutality whose death caused a major resurgence in the Black Lives Matter movement in May of 2020.
13. The inventor of the zoot suit.
15. The man responsible for the Birmingham Bombing
19. The year of the olympics where two African American athletes were stripped of their medals for holding up black power salutes.