Civil Rights for African Americans

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Across
  1. 2. The _________ movement fights against racism today.
  2. 5. The Declaration of Independence said all men are ______, but slavery still existed.
  3. 6. The ________ of 1965 helped protect Black voters.
  4. 9. refused to give up her bus seat, inspiring protests.
  5. 12. After slavery ended, African Americans still faced _________ and discrimination.
  6. 13. The March on _______ in 1963 was a big protest for equality.
  7. 14. Martin Luther King Jr. led _______ protests for civil rights.
  8. 15. W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary White _______ fought for African American rights.
Down
  1. 1. The Supreme Court ruled in 1857 that enslaved people were not ________.
  2. 3. The _______ bus boycott helped end bus segregation.
  3. 4. Thurgood Marshall helped end segregation in _______ through a court case.
  4. 5. The NAACP works to protect equal rights for ________.
  5. 7. The ____ v. Board of Education case in 1954 made school segregation illegal.
  6. 8. President _____ supported civil rights laws.
  7. 10. Many ______ states refused to follow civil rights laws.
  8. 11. _____ was abolished after the Civil War, but racism continued.