Civil Rights Movement Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. - first african american supreme court justice
  2. 6. - this group of federal troops had to be called in to Little Rock, Arkansas
  3. 9. - this city was regarded as the most segregated city in the U.S.
  4. 11. - American muslim minister and civil rights activist
  5. 13. - this is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream”
  6. 14. - outlawed slavery
  7. 16. - this 14 yr old boy was lynched causing national outrage
  8. 17. - name for segregation laws
  9. 18. - this case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
  10. 19. - WEB du Bois was the founder of this organization
  11. 20. - this president sent federal troops to escort James Meredith into Ole Miss
Down
  1. 1. - rallying cry of the civil rights movement
  2. 2. - her actions influenced the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  3. 3. - first african american baseball player
  4. 4. - the name for the summer of 1964
  5. 7. - Baptist minister from Atlanta who advocated for non-violent protests during the Civil Rights Movement
  6. 8. - civil rights activists who traveled in the south to draw attention to the south’s segregation of bus terminals
  7. 10. - most common form of protests during the civil rights movement
  8. 12. - this man was denied admission at Ole Miss due to his race
  9. 15. - this president desegregated armed forces