Civil Rights Movement Review
Across
- 2. Hugh Burnette’s efforts with the NUA helped to bring attention to racial discrimination in _____ and forced a public reckoning with systemic racism in Ontario and Canada.
- 3. In 1957, nine African American students in Little Rock, Arkansas, needed ______ protection to attend a desegregated school for the first time.
- 5. Who was arrested first: Rosa Parks or Viola Desmond?
- 7. Thurgood Marshall was the NAACP lawyer during Brown v Board of Education.
- 8. Many young African Americans participated in 'sit-in protests', and one of the most famous examples was the _____________ .
- 9. In 1948, Hugh Burnette helped start a group called the National ______ Association (NUA).
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- 1. Colvin 15-year-old _________ is arrested on March 2, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus.
- 3. Rosa Parks was arrested in the city of ________, Alabama.
- 4. Carrie Best founded The _________ in 1946.
- 6. American activist and politician used the erm "Good Trouble" when describing being arrested.