Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 6. 1963 protest where MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
  2. 8. Baptist minister and peaceful leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
  3. 10. The goal of the Civil Rights Movement—fair treatment for all people.
  4. 12. The legal separation of people by race in public spaces.
  5. 14. Groups who rode buses to protest segregated travel in the South.
  6. 15. Powerful speaker who supported Black empowerment and later left the Nation of Islam.
Down
  1. 1. The group of people most impacted by racism and who led the Civil Rights Movement.
  2. 2. Nonviolent protests where Black students sat in whites-only areas.
  3. 3. 381-day protest to end segregation on buses in Alabama.
  4. 4. 1965 law that protected the right to vote for African Americans.
  5. 5. Time period of legal segregation before the Civil Rights Movement.
  6. 7. 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat months before Rosa Parks.
  7. 9. President who signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.
  8. 11. 1964 law that banned segregation and discrimination.
  9. 13. Woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus, sparking a major protest.