Civil Rights

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