American History: Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 2. 200,000 participated in this event
  2. 5. the organization founded by King to fight for civil rights
  3. 7. movement started after the death of of Travon Martin in 2013
  4. 9. name of the first AA baseball player to join Major League baseball
  5. 11. the act of a mob killing someone without a trial
  6. 12. students that broke the color barrier in this Arkansas city high school
  7. 14. was killed by police serving no knock warrent at the wrong address
  8. 15. rode buses to help desegregate buses and bus stations
  9. 17. Supreme Court case that allowed racially mixed marriages
  10. 19. the Civil Rights campaign during WWII
  11. 22. the city of Bloody Sunday and the Pettus Bridge
  12. 23. 14-year-old boy that was killed by the klan His casket was open at his funeral
  13. 24. Alabama city bus boycott
  14. 27. King wrote an open letter from this city's jail and the Children's March took place here
  15. 29. laws that enforced segregation in the south
  16. 30. speech given by ML King at the March on Washington
  17. 31. revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality
Down
  1. 1. passed in 1965 legislation to remove literacy test to vote
  2. 3. students held sit-ins at these to help desegregate restaurants
  3. 4. leader of the Black Muslims
  4. 6. case that desegregated schools in 1954
  5. 8. was killed by police kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes
  6. 10. people spoke and it helped get the Civil Rights Act passed in Congress
  7. 13. the first African American on the Supreme Court
  8. 16. King's strategy to protest peacefully
  9. 18. an organization that fought for civil rights in the courts
  10. 20. co-founder of NAACP and editor of The Crisis
  11. 21. Activist, freedman rider and later Congressman for Georgia
  12. 25. She sat on a bus
  13. 26. signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting rights Act into law
  14. 28. Tennessee city where King was assassinated