civil rights movement

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Across
  1. 6. Segregation by law
  2. 8. Was arrested for not moving to the back of the bus
  3. 10. Case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional
  4. 11. A 1964 project to register African American voters in Mississippi
  5. 12. African American political organization formed in 1966 to fight police brutality
  6. 13. Born Malcolm Little
  7. 14. Form of demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination
  8. 15. One of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early 1960s to challenge segregation
Down
  1. 1. Segregation that exists by practice and custom
  2. 2. Was denied admission to the University of Maryland Law School because of his race
  3. 3. Won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi
  4. 4. A policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged
  5. 5. Popularly knows as Black Muslims
  6. 7. Gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech
  7. 9. Group that was appointed by President Johnson to study the causes of urban violence