Civil Rights

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Across
  1. 3. wrote the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
  2. 6. famous for her refusal to move on a segregated bus
  3. 9. Court case that got rid of "separate but equal" and desegregated schools
  4. 10. student-led civil rights group that organized "sit-ins"
  5. 11. "in fact" - existing regardless of what the law says
  6. 13. Bobby ___: one of the founders of the Black Panther party
  7. 14. Arkansas city where 9 Black students needed guards to go to school
  8. 15. ____ Newton: one of the founders of the Black Panther party
  9. 16. civil rights organization that organized "freedom rides"
Down
  1. 1. "in law" - existing because it is coded into law
  2. 2. African American political party that strongly advocated for self-defense
  3. 4. ___ Marshall: the first Black Supreme Court justice
  4. 5. civil rights leader that supported Black Nationalism
  5. 7. Court case that established "separate but equal"
  6. 8. civil rights organization of ministers of which MLK was a member
  7. 10. ____ Carmichael: most associated with the "Black Power" movement
  8. 12. civil rights organization that used advocacy and the courts to achieve change