CIVIL RIGHTS
Across
- 2. head of the NAACP who spoke against violence
- 5. associate justice of the united states supreme court
- 7. man who fought against segregation and was arrested from 1962-1990
- 10. leader of the Black Muslims since the 1930's
- 12. group of african-americans who attended an all white school
- 14. national association for the advancement of colored people
- 16. seperating one group or race from another
- 17. thousands of laws passed by the southern states to keep blacks seperate
- 18. seamstress that refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
- 20. deeply rooted prejudice which expressed as one race is superior to another
Down
- 1. group that believed the only way for blacks to solve their problems was through seperation
- 3. a fee to charge voters mainly to keep poor blacks from voting
- 4. leader of the civil rights movement and famous for the "I Have A Dream Speech"
- 6. tests given to voters often unfair to blacks
- 8. removing barriers and putting all groups of people together
- 9. group of brave blacks and whites who rode buses to the south to challange racial seegregation
- 11. highly publicized campaign to register blacks to vote in the summer of 1964
- 13. the rights you have as a citizin that the government cannot take away
- 15. a policy of segregation against a race
- 19. african-americans who sat in the wrong spot on the bus and refused to move