Civil Rights - Azalee A

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  1. 2. small town in Alabama that became a focal point for the civil rights movements in 1965
  2. 6. An organization of militant black civil rights activists inspired by Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power" philosophies
  3. 9. a 1960 protest in which four college black students sat at an all-white lunch counter in a Woolworth's store in Greensboro
  4. 11. on Washington
  5. 12. A term coined by militant former SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael.
Down
  1. 1. a national figure that ended one of the largest political rallies in American history with his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
  2. 3. president that sent troops to escort students to school
  3. 4. overrules Plessy vs. Ferguson
  4. 5. campaign that helped convince the U.S Congress to ratify the 24th Amendment and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  5. 7. An act that outlawed racial segregation and created a civil rights division in 1957
  6. 8. refused to give up her bus seat for a white man
  7. 10. Civil rights organization established in 1909 for the advancement of colored people