Chap 16.1-16.3 Review

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Across
  1. 5. Alliance of church based African-American organization dedicated to ending discrimination established
  2. 6. Congress of Racial Equality founded by James Farmer segregated schools were unequal and unconstitutional
  3. 7. refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus & was arrested
  4. 9. group of African American high-school students who challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas
  5. 10. civil rights activist who used nonviolence to lead civil rights
  6. 11. - Attorney from the NAACP legal team that led the Brown vs. Board of Education case
  7. 13. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - Organization formed by African American college students to promote Civil Rights using non-violence
  8. 14. President that was assassinated in Texas in 1963 and supported Civil Rights
  9. 17. Bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama where African Americans refused to ride buses as a result of the Rosa Parks incident
  10. 19. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Civil Rights organization formed in 1909
  11. 20. Air Force veteran who enrolled at the all-white University of Mississippi
  12. 21. Civil rights activists who took bus trips to protest and bring attention to civil rights
  13. 22. nonviolent strategy used by protesters who sat at places they were not allowed and refused to leave
Down
  1. 1. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in August 1963
  2. 2. - Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” accommodations were constitutional
  3. 3. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that
  4. 4. - Chief Justice who wrote the Brown vs. Board of Education decision
  5. 8. Banned segregation in public accommodations and gave government the power to desegregate schools
  6. 11. Banned the poll tax
  7. 12. Leading Nation of Islam minister who turned to orthodox Islam, believed in using violence if necessary
  8. 15. Campaign in 1964 to help African Americans in the South register to vote
  9. 16. Banned literacy tests and passed voting rights laws
  10. 18. Civil rights activists who took bus trips to protest illegal bus segregation and bring attention to civil rights