Joan's Crossword Civil rights movement

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  1. 9. was one of the first major events of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
  2. 10. resulted in the Supreme Court ruling segregation on public buses unconstitutional.
  3. 11. He was a politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020
  4. 12. resistance is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, or other methods, while being nonviolent.
  5. 14. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established in 1957 by civil rights activists most of whom were preachers.
  6. 15. This bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson.
  7. 16. In 1956 the Georgia General Assembly redesigned the Georgia state flag as a show of opposition to integration.
  8. 17. In 1959, Atlanta schools were ordered to integrate by the US government.
  9. 19. basic rights that every citizen has under the laws of the government (examples: right to free speech, to vote, to privacy, to religious freedom, to a fair trial, etc.)
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  1. 1. the enforced separation of different racial groups
  2. 2. turned to his executive powers and issued orders prohibiting discrimination in federal employment and to end segregation in the military.
  3. 3. In 1961 members of SNCC and the local community began a protest movement in Albany, Georgia.
  4. 4. In 1963, the SCLC organized the largest protest in the civil rights movement,
  5. 5. turned to his executive powers and issued orders prohibiting discrimination in federal employment and to end segregation in the military.
  6. 6. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced “snick”) was founded in 1960 in the wake of student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters across the South and became the major channel of student participation in the civil rights movement.
  7. 7. White supremacists who controlled Georgia’s government at the time responded to Brown v. Board of Education with a strategy called “Massive Resistance”.
  8. 8. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.
  9. 13. groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
  10. 18. the process of undoing segregation, bringing together people of different races in public space.
  11. 20. opened a restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia where he refused to serve African Americans or those who supported integration.