Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 4. The Freedom Riders were organized by this group
  2. 7. The piece of clothing people were mad about
  3. 9. A civil rights activist who tried to stop segregation at the University of
  4. 15. The holiday the Colfax Massacre took place on
  5. 16. The number of black people killed during the Colfax Massacre
  6. 17. The man who sent police to break up the protests over the bombing
  7. 18. What the men wore on their feet during the 1968 Olympics to represent black poverty
  8. 20. The cost of property damage that ensued from the Watts Riots
Down
  1. 1. The movement to protest police brutality
  2. 2. The number of people who participated in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in America
  3. 3. The number of people who were in Birmingham Church at the time of the bombing
  4. 5. A drunk black man who resisted arrest and was beaten by a police man
  5. 6. The hand gesture the athletes made all the anthem was playing at the 1968 Olympics
  6. 8. The man who killed Medgar Evers
  7. 10. Civil rights activists, black and white, who rode interstate buses into the segregated South
  8. 11. The place where a black teen was drowned after going to a beach that wasn’t officially segregated
  9. 12. The number of black people who lost their homes because they were burned down during the riots
  10. 13. The race that was affected by the Zoot Suit Riots
  11. 14. The place the black soldiers were when the shot they supposedly fired happened
  12. 19. An event that happened Texas in 1906 where black people were accused of killing white men