Civil rights -Neshem

3. A policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities
4. converted to Nation of Islam in jail in the 50s, became Black Muslims' most dynamic street orator and recruiter
6. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
8. Racial segregation that occurs because of laws or administrative decisions by public agencies.
12. In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in Washington to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The high point came when MLK Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 marchers in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

1. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
2. Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
5. 50's migration where middle-class white Americans fled to suburbs leaving inner cities to decay
7. A tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote
9. founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans
10. churches link together to inform blacks about changes in the Civil Rights Movement, led by MLK Jr., was a success
11. a group established in 1960 to promote and use non-violent means to protest racial discrimination; they were the ones primarily responsible for creating the sit-in movement