Civil rights movement

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Across
  1. 3. The state in which the Birmingham events of 1963 took place
  2. 7. she was one of the first African Americans to integrate a white school at just 6 years old.
  3. 8. This lady refused to give up a seat for a white man and move to the back of the bus, which caused the Montgomery bus boycott.’
  4. 10. The ruling of the
  5. 13. This civil rights organization was made in 1909 to help fight for justice for African Americans and get rid of racial discrimination.
  6. 16. This influential leader wanted to use the opposite approach as MLK, suggesting violence instead of peaceful protests.
  7. 17. Lawyer for the Brown family in the Brown vs Board of Ed case.
  8. 18. Laws that helped keep segregation in place.
  9. 19. This was a way of protesting that involved a form of civil disobedience, which involved taking a seat in an establishment that was segregated, and not moving even when they asked.
Down
  1. 1. These laws are protections and privileges guaranteed by law to citizens of a country.
  2. 2. the First AA to play major league baseball. Played for the Brooklyn Dodgers
  3. 4. Sit ins, or a march.
  4. 5. this is the name of the action of forcing the division of races
  5. 6. Bus trips taken by civil rights activists into the segregated southern US
  6. 9. The part of the United States in which slavery was used until the civil war.
  7. 11. he led the NAACP in Montgomery, one of the most important parts of the US during the civil rights movement. He also helped create things like the Montgomery bus boycott.
  8. 12. this is the city where MLK gave his famous “I have a dream” speech
  9. 14. The state in which 9 black students integrated a white only school.
  10. 15. is a form of protest, done by organizing lots of people to walk together.
  11. 16. Nickname/abbrievietion for the man who gave the famous “I have a dream” speech