Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 4. Civil rights campaign during WW2 - Victory over racism and fascism
  2. 6. President in the 1950s who integrated Central High School
  3. 8. 1954 court case - segregation in schools is unconstitutional
  4. 11. 1896 court case "______" v. Ferguson, separate but equal is legal
  5. 12. Type of disobedience practiced by civil rights supporters
  6. 15. Type of tests that forced Blacks to pass a writing test to vote
  7. 16. A key leader of the Nation of Islam
  8. 17. Segregation that is practiced by custom
  9. 19. Amendment that outlawed slavery
  10. 20. Types of rides in 1961 that challenged interstate bus segregation in the Deep South
  11. 21. Jackie of baseball who was first Black pro baseball player
  12. 22. Type of rights that said the states could refuse to follow federal law
  13. 25. This "____ Rights Act" of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests
  14. 29. She refused to leave her seat on the bus in Montgomery in 1955
  15. 30. Amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race
  16. 31. Student group that sponsored the Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides
  17. 32. Isaac ____- Black WW2 vet blinded in 1942 in
Down
  1. 1. City where school was desegregated in 1957 in Arkansas
  2. 2. The "_____" Migration - Mass movement of Blacks to northern US for jobs and freedom
  3. 3. Amendment that gave "equal protection under the law"
  4. 5. Emerged as leader of SCLC in 1955
  5. 7. Period after U.S. Civil War 1866-1877
  6. 8. Nickname for Eugene Connor, Birmingham police chief
  7. 9. The 24th Amendment of 1964 outlawed these type of taxes to vote
  8. 10. City where a yearlong bus boycott happened in 1955
  9. 13. Animal representing the group of Black Separatists
  10. 14. Laws that segregated blacks from whites in South after the Civil War
  11. 18. Teenager murdered in Mississippi in 1955
  12. 23. President who signed Executive Order 9981 banning segregation in the military
  13. 24. The ___________ Christian Leadership Conference
  14. 26. ML King wrote a letter from this city's jail in 1963
  15. 27. This "______ Rights Act" of 1964 banned discrimination on the basis of race or sex
  16. 28. Segregation that is enforced by law