Jordan Brown Ch. 29

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Across
  1. 2. : the largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama.
  2. 3. : Won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi.
  3. 6. : An exclusively black Islamic sect proposing a separate black nation, founded in Detroit.
  4. 7. : Refused to give up her seat.
  5. 8. : Eliminated the literacy tests that had disqualified many voters.
  6. 14. : A Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement.
  7. 15. : A US civil-rights student organization active in the 1960's.
  8. 16. : Protestors sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served.
  9. 17. : One of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation.
  10. 18. : 26-year-old Pastor of the Dexter Ave. Baptist Church.
  11. 19. : This voter registration effort in rural Mississippi was organized by black and white civil rights workers in 1964.
Down
  1. 1. : Ended mandatory poll taxes that prevented many African Americans.
  2. 4. : American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
  3. 5. : Making special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination.
  4. 9. : They ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
  5. 10. : Carried out nonviolent crusades against the evils of the second-class citizenship.
  6. 11. : Prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.
  7. 12. : Democratic Party politician and police official from the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement.
  8. 13. : African American group who fought police brutality in the ghetto.
  9. 20. : Joined the Nation of Islam in 1946 and became a vigorous campaigner for black rights, initially advocating the use of violence.