Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 2. Rides/Freedom Riders rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places
  2. 3. in/Nonviolent protests in which a person sits and refuses to leave.
  3. 6. Robinson/Baseball player who broke the color barrier
  4. 8. everybody is equal
  5. 9. abstain from buying or using until conditions are met
Down
  1. 1. what the African Americans were aiming to abolish
  2. 4. Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  3. 5. Parks/ Started bus boycott, refused seat for a white person
  4. 7. bus boycott/ The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
  5. 9. vs Board of Education/Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional, overturned Plessey v Ferguson.