Civil Rights
Across
- 3. Test to prove they can read before they vote
- 5. Fee required to vote
- 6. Racial segregation that occurs because of laws or administrative decisions by public agencies
- 7. Registered many blacks to vote
- 9. Improve opportunities for women and minorities
- 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
- 13. took bus trips through southern states in to protest illegal bus segregation
- 14. 50's migration where middle-class white Americans fled to suburbs leaving inner cities to decay
- 15. Famous for refusing to give her seat up to a white man
Down
- 1. Killed for flirting with white woman
- 2. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
- 4. churches link together to inform blacks about changes in the Civil Rights Movement, led by MLK Jr., was a success
- 8. protests by black college students
- 10. laws to enforce segregation
- 12. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation