Civil Rights Movement Crossword!

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  1. 6. Civil Rights group founded by James Farmer, its aim was to work for racial equality and even trained people on how to be nonviolent
  2. 7. often known as most racist southern city in America that was home to unrest with Civil Rights Movement
  3. 10. Nine black students enrolled here after desegregation
  4. 11. The ___________ Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices
  5. 12. The ___________v. Board of Ed. declared segregated schools unconstitutional
  6. 14. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the ___________________ to fight for total equality
  7. 17. the type of segregation by law or the justice system
  8. 19. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" Speech at the March on
  9. 20. Leaders of this student group led sit-ins in Greensboro; shock - troops
  10. 21. The practice of discriminating against and segregating Black people in the South
  11. 24. This African American Civil Rights activist was a member of the Nation of Islam before breaking from it
  12. 25. the movement of ending segregated facilities and accommodations
  13. 27. the Civil Rights group that Martin Luther King Jr. was most heavily associated with that was very active in organizing demonstrations
  14. 28. This president called for federal civil rights legislation before he was assassinated
  15. 30. This young black teen was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi
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  1. 1. Usually associated with hanging, African Americans were subject to this in the deep south
  2. 2. This leader popularized the term "Black Power"
  3. 3. The __________ Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination
  4. 4. Ratified in 1964, this amendment ended poll taxes
  5. 5. Term for the keeping of races and ethnic groups apart
  6. 8. name for group of demonstrators who rode busses into racist parts of the South
  7. 9. a special type of test that assessed whether or not blacks were worthy enough to vote
  8. 13. This national organization was founded in 1909 for racial equality
  9. 15. brave educated white woman who convinced Mayor West to desecrate the counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
  10. 16. This civil rights leader lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott and later won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
  11. 18. This Civil Rights lawyer defended Brown
  12. 22. She began the Montgomery Bus Boycott from refusing to move her seat
  13. 23. Made "The Great Society" agenda to implement federal civil rights
  14. 26. teacher who bravely taught elementary students about racism with eye color
  15. 29. the type of segregation by behavior, habit or inherent racism