Civil Rights Movement

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  1. 5. A black student who tried to enroll in the University of Mississippi. After he was prevented from doing so, Robert F. Kennedy sent troops to enforce his ban.
  2. 6. A form of peaceful protest which consists of occupying and refusing to leave from a segregated establishment.
  3. 7. One of the things the March on Washington was about.
  4. 8. The name of the rights that a police officer must inform a suspect of after his arrest.
  5. 9. One of the most famous leaders of the black power movement and a minister in the Nation of Islam.
  6. 12. Civil rights activists who rode on segregated interstate buses as a peaceful protest.
  7. 14. Largest political demonstration in all of American history.
  8. 15. The title of Martin Luther King Jr.'s amount 1963 speech.
  9. 16. African-American civil rights organization that spiraled into black supremacy by the late 1960s.
  10. 17. One of the things the March on Washington was about.
Down
  1. 1. A black power political party with Marxist ideals, later dismantled by the FBI.
  2. 2. A defense of "nonviolent civil disobedience" written by Martin Luther King Jr.
  3. 3. 1964 event in which blacks were granted voter education by volunteer groups.
  4. 4. The leader of the Nation of Islam.
  5. 10. African-American civil rights organization founded by James Farmer.
  6. 11. Supreme Court Chief Justice who was responsible for many civil rights reforms during the 1960s.
  7. 13. SNCC leader who brought black power to the organization.