Civil Rights Movement Crossword!

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