Civil Rights Movement Crossword!

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