Human Rights Review

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  1. 3. Prominent leader of the civil rights movement; also a Reverend and academic Doctor.
  2. 4. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organisation formed 1909. They work to remove all racial discrimination through democratic processes for the racial minority.
  3. 5. When a person does not face any legal consequences and are not held responsible for crimes they've been accused of.
  4. 7. Principle upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public facilities was legal.
  5. 9. Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
  6. 11. The ending of authorized segregation, or separation by race.
  7. 14. A 1963 campaign that put pressure on segregation laws. Demonstrators were arrested and assaulted by the police and images of such were shown across world media.
  8. 17. Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 declaring that all slaves in the Confederate states would be free.
  9. 20. A white supremacist organisation formed by ex-Confederate soldiers after the US Civil War. They terrorised, lynched, and intimidated Black people.
  10. 21. Racism that is deep within a community/system where it is viewed as normal.
  11. 24. An influential non-governmental organisation that operates globally to monitor and try to stop abuses of human rights.
  12. 25. State laws in the South that legalized segregation.
  13. 26. 1954 case that overturned Separate but Equal standards of discrimination in education.
  14. 28. A set of standards which every human should be treated equally and fairly no matter race or background. E.g. Right to life, Right to equality before the law, Right to privacy.
Down
  1. 1. Famous civil rights activist who refused to sit at the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 and was arrested.
  2. 2. An organisation/movement that protests against discrimination of African-Americans by the police.
  3. 6. 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the legality of segregation as "separate but equal".
  4. 8. A war between people/groups within the same country.
  5. 10. African American man killed by policeman Derek Chauvin in 2020.
  6. 12. An 25-year-old African-American man who was pursued and fatally shot while jogging in Georgia in 2020.
  7. 13. The belief that one race is superior to others.
  8. 15. Racist police official of Birmingham, Alabama who supported racial segregation.
  9. 16. A protest starting in 1955 whereby African Americans refused to ride buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest against the segregated seating laws. It ended in 1956 when the case Browder v. Gayle found segregated buses to be illegal.
  10. 18. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 (pro-slavery) and eventually lost the US Civil War.
  11. 19. The act of uniting or bringing together, especially people of different races.
  12. 22. On August 28, 1963, over 200,000 black and white Americans came together on the nation's capital for the March on Washington, often considered the nonviolent Civil Rights movement's high point.
  13. 23. African-American Muslim who was a prominent figure during the Civil Rights movement. A populariser of 'Black Power' and proponent of using violence to achieve their goals.
  14. 27. A form of non violent resistance wherein protesters walk into a segregated business and sit peacefully.