The 1960's

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Across
  1. 3. enduring symbol of the Cold War that was built during Kennedy’s administration
  2. 5. Great Society program to provide pre-school education for disadvantaged children
  3. 8. a “domestic” Peace Corps created by Lyndon Johnson
  4. 11. Johnson program to provide medical care to people 65 or over
  5. 13. organization created by President Kennedy that sent volunteers to aid developing countries
  6. 14. Civil rights leader who was assassinated in his front yard
  7. 15. Broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball
  8. 16. Johnson program to provide medical care to poor people
  9. 17. Southern civil rights organization led by Martin Luther King
  10. 18. Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott with her refusal to give up her seat
  11. 19. fought to overturn Plessy vs Ferguson through legal challenges
  12. 21. nickname given to JFK’s administration
  13. 23. organization aimed at bringing college students into the civil rights movement
  14. 24. His mother chose an open casket “so everyone could see what they did to my boy”
  15. 25. ___________________vs Board, case that ended segregation in schools
Down
  1. 1. outlawed the use of poll taxes and literacy tests
  2. 2. Police attacked marchers in Selma on the Edmund Pettis bridge
  3. 4. aimed at desegregating bus stations across the South
  4. 6. strategy used to desegregate public places such as restaurants
  5. 7. Voting rights drive in Mississippi during which 3 civil rights workers were murdered
  6. 9. banned discrimination based on race, creed, color, gender
  7. 10. MLK gave his “I Have A Dream Speech” here
  8. 12. the closest the US came to nuclear war during the Kennedy administration
  9. 20. first American to orbit the earth
  10. 22. 1st American in space