Little Rock Nine

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Across
  1. 2. – Number of Black students who enrolled at Central High
  2. 4. – Keeping people of different races apart
  3. 7. – President who sent federal troops
  4. 12. – Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Nine
  5. 13. – The act of bringing different racial groups together
  6. 14. – What the students were fighting for
  7. 16. – A goal of the Civil Rights Movement
  8. 18. – What the students showed
  9. 19. – Group that helped support the Nine
Down
  1. 1. Rock – City where the school integration took place
  2. 3. – Ending the separation of races in schools
  3. 5. – What many people did against integration
  4. 6. – The U.S. state where this happened
  5. 8. Faubus – Governor who opposed the integration
  6. 9. – Name of the high school (Central High)
  7. 10. – One of the Nine who was suspended for fighting back
  8. 11. – As in “civil rights”
  9. 15. – Sent by the president to protect the students
  10. 17. – Angry crowd that protested outside the school