Martin Luther King Day Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. Court: a group of 9 judges, nominated by the President of the United States, who have the most power in America to make decisions about how laws are interpreted or followed
  2. 7. an action where many people stay away from a person or an organization in order to force that person or organization to change
  3. 8. when everyone has the same opportunities
  4. 10. solving conflicts peacefully
  5. 13. Rights: the enjoyment of having choices, like where to eat, shop, live, go to school, or work
  6. 16. unfairly keeping some people from getting things that other people have
Down
  1. 1. working, living, playing, and sharing together without being unfair
  2. 2. fairness
  3. 3. where there is nothing keeping a person from having choices, being treated fairly, and having the same opportunities as everyone else
  4. 4. keeping people apart from each other
  5. 5. having negative feelings about people without an intelligent reason; often feelings based on fear or ignorance
  6. 6. people walking together as a group in order to let other people know how they feel about a problem
  7. 9. all citizens of the United States
  8. 11. Rights Act of 1965: a law that makes it a crime to keep people from voting on account of race or color
  9. 12. Crow: laws that divided African Americans and white Americans by making African Americans use different public spaces like schools, parks, water fountains, restaurants, bathrooms, stores, and movie theaters
  10. 14. Rights Act of 1964: a law that guaranteed the enjoyment of having choices
  11. 15. a rule made by a city, county, state, or national government, which all citizens must obey