Civil Rights

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Across
  1. 4. Stokely Carmichael used this term in 1966.
  2. 6. Sunday On March 7th, 1965 this happened in Selma, Alabama.
  3. 8. on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested on what?
  4. 9. A symbol of young militant African-Americans.
  5. 12. 1000 volunteers were to flood Mississippi to help African-Americans register to vote.
  6. 15. Most powerful civil rights organization by the end of WWII.
  7. 16. In 1960, only 3.1% of African Americans completed what?
  8. 18. In 1948, Truman desegregated what?
  9. 19. Congress passed this in 1965.
  10. 20. This happened in 1896. (Plessy vs._______)
  11. 22. The most well known African American Radical.
  12. 23. Attorney who helped with legal defense in Tennessee arrests (Last Name)
  13. 25. He was a baptist minister who addressed many groups on civil rights with inspirational speeches. (ABBV.)
  14. 26. James Farmer and others helped found this organization. (abbv.)
Down
  1. 1. Segregation by unwritten custom or traditions.
  2. 2. One of 9 students chosen to integrate Little Rock High School. (Last Name)
  3. 3. This Arkansas Governor announced his opposition to integration. (Last Name)
  4. 5. First African-American to play Major League Baseball. (Last Name)
  5. 7. Dr. Martin Luther King Endorsed this candidate for office which won him the African-American votes. (ABBV.)
  6. 9. Montgomery organized a one-day ________to express their opposition in Park'sarrest.
  7. 10. President Johnson established this commission.
  8. 11. Segregation that is imposed by law is known as?
  9. 12. A tactic by which senators give long speeches to hold up legislation.
  10. 13. People who sit down and refuse to leave in order to protest.
  11. 14. Malcolm X converted to this religion
  12. 17. First African American to integrate the University of Mississippi.
  13. 21. In 1956, 100 southern congress members endorsed "The Southern ________.
  14. 24. Nixon established this to close the economic gap between blacks and whites.