The Civil Rights Movement: Eli Heaster

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Across
  1. 4. Leader of a Militant group who wanted violence.
  2. 8. Laws passed to segregate blacks and whites.
  3. 11. NAACP lawyer who represented the children
  4. 13. Granted ex-slaves citizenship.
  5. 15. Knowing you are violating the law, but willing to accept the actions.
  6. 19. MLK's famous letter while he was in jail.
  7. 21. Refused to move on a bus for a white man.
  8. 23. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, helped overturn segregation laws in many cities.
  9. 25. Bakke argued he was a victim of illegal radical discrimination.
  10. 26. Civil rights leader who had a new tactic, nonviolent resistance.
  11. 27. 14 year old who was murdered.
  12. 28. MLK's final speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Down
  1. 1. Protesters were attacked by local police force.
  2. 2. killed in Memphis, riots happened in 125 cities.
  3. 3. 9 African American students.
  4. 5. Mass movement for civil rights,Congress of Racial Equality.
  5. 6. Blacks refused to ride the bus.
  6. 7. Poll tax outlawed, black voter registration increased.
  7. 9. Organization that fought for the rights of African Americans
  8. 10. 4 little girls were killed
  9. 12. Selma's county had 15000 eligible voters but only 335 were registered.
  10. 14. 54 mile march from Selma to the capital city of Montgomery.
  11. 16. Students gathered to help register blacks to vote.
  12. 17. Separating whites from blacks.
  13. 18. 4 black students sat at a segregated lunch counter.
  14. 20. Murdered MLK in Memphis.
  15. 22. Rode buses to the South to protest.
  16. 24. Many people converged the city to stop segregation, 2500 protesters filled the jails.