Chapter 16
Across
- 2. Federal legislation that banned literacy tests and allowed national oversight of voter registration.
- 6. Site of a major 1965 riot revealing deep urban racial tensions.
- 8. but equal Doctrine overturned by *Brown v. Board of Education* that had allowed segregation.
- 10. City where Rosa Parks' arrest sparked a pivotal bus boycott.
- 11. Nonviolent protest campaign launched by Dr. King to fight economic injustice. ________ ___________ Campaign
- 14. Procedure that ends a filibuster in the Senate.
- 15. Militant civil rights group that supported community self-defense and empowerment.
- 18. The 1968 law that banned discrimination in housing. _____ ______ _____ of 1968
Down
- 1. Law that outlawed segregation and job discrimination. _____ ______ _____ of 1964
- 3. The act of enrolling, especially in voting rolls
- 4. Tactic used in the Senate to delay or block civil rights legislation by extended speech.
- 5. X Militant civil rights leader affiliated with the Nation of Islam.
- 7. Practice of segregation by tradition and social norms rather than by law. _____ ________ segregation
- 9. Commission that investigated causes of urban riots and blamed institutional racism.
- 12. Rock City where federal troops were sent to enforce school desegregation in 1957.
- 13. Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and advocate of nonviolent protest.
- 15. Power Movement encouraging African American pride, self-reliance, and control of civil rights activism.
- 16. Group that organized youth protests and sit-ins during the civil rights movement.
- 17. Sunday 1965 event where marchers were brutally attacked, spurring new voting rights legislation.
- 19. Group formed by Martin Luther King Jr. to lead nonviolent civil rights campaigns.