Crossword Term 3 Tic Tac Toe Project

5. American labour leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America
6. Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief partner in the civil rights movement
7. black teenager who was brutally murdered in 1955 Mississippi who's death was a catalyst for civil rights
9. woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus who got arrested that started the bus boycott
12. nine black students who enrolled in a formerly all-white Central High School to begin desegregation
13. an event that focused on employment discrimination, civil rights abuses against African Americans, Latinos, other disenfranchised groups
15. civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S.
17. greatly contributed to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s, famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech
18. aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote
19. process of ending the separation of different racial, religious, or cultural groups
20. director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

1. a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride the city buses in Montgomery Alabama to protest segregated seating
2. court case where the Supreme Court decided that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional
3. separating people into racial or ethnic groups
4. a leader in the civil rights movement and supporter of Black nationalism
8. the amendment that eliminated the poll taxes and abolished governments from imposing taxes on voters
10. ending segregation and allowing whites, African Americans, and all races to be together
11. organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination
14. a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together
16. youngest president elected to office, shot in Dallas, Texas