Civil Rights-Peterson

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Across
  1. 3. refusal to ride buses in Montgomery Alabama by black people to protest the seating rules
  2. 5. African Americans sit at segregated counters and refused to leave until served
  3. 6. Air Force veteran who won a federal court case allowing him to enroll in the all white university of Mississippi
  4. 8. court case deeming segregated schools unconstitutional
  5. 10. court case saying that "separate but equal" is constitutional
  6. 11. segregation by law
  7. 12. a political party set out to fight police brutality in the ghetto
Down
  1. 1. civil rights leader who taught nonviolence and led many peaceful protests
  2. 2. african American woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott
  3. 4. formerly Elijah Muhammad who went to jail at age 20 and became a leader in the civil rights movement
  4. 7. segregation existing by practice or custom
  5. 9. people who rode buses to the segregated south and sat in banned seating areas which hopes to spark a violent reaction