The Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 2. To no longer use a service or buy a good, as a form of protest
  2. 3. Woman who kicked off the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  3. 6. MLK was known for leading this form of protest
  4. 8. President who was able to pass a Civil Rights Act
  5. 9. City in which MLK was assassinated
  6. 13. African American social movement in the late 1960s that advocated unity and self-reliance to address injustice
  7. 14. Civil rights leader who was once associated with the Nation of Islam
  8. 15. de facto laws that prohibited Black Americans from exercising political and social rights
  9. 17. "_____ Overcome" (anthem of the Civil Rights movement)
  10. 18. Challenged segregation on interstate buses; participants included Black and white students
  11. 20. What is the short name for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
  12. 21. Term for when Black students asked for service at segregated lunch counters and participated in peaceful protests
  13. 22. Head of SNCC; politician and civil rights activist; took part in sit-ins and major protests; Later became a rep for Georgia
  14. 23. Claudette _____________, who refused to give up her seat on a bus in March 1955.
  15. 24. Group of students who tried to go to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR
Down
  1. 1. MLK won this in 1964
  2. 2. What city was considered the most "segregated city in America"?
  3. 4. Student organization formed by Ella Baker
  4. 5. Doctrine that allowed racial segregation of public facilities
  5. 7. group inspired by Malcolm X; more militant, but focused on community-building
  6. 10. Where MLK gave his "I Have a Dream"
  7. 11. March that ended with violence from state troopers on Bloody Sunday. Had been protesting the death of a voting rights activist
  8. 12. An attempt to kill a bill by having a group of senators taking turns speaking so that a vote cannot take place
  9. 16. First Black Supreme Court Justice
  10. 19. ___________ v. Board of Education: Supreme Court Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
  11. 22. President that began to create new civil rights bill, but was assassinated