The Civil Rights Movement: Kaelyn Payment

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Across
  1. 3. city where MLK wrote his famous prion letter
  2. 4. was denied acceptance at a university as a result of affirmative action
  3. 6. black boy who was killed after flirting with a white cashier
  4. 8. upheld segregation laws under the doctrine of separate but equal
  5. 9. deliberately violating a law and willing to accept the consequences
  6. 11. Martin Luther King's most famous speech
  7. 12. established programs to admit/hire more minorities
  8. 17. nickname for the city of Birmingham during the civil rights era
  9. 18. year that segregation of public places became illegal
  10. 19. lawyer who represented Brown in Brown v. Board of Education
  11. 22. tested the strength Supreme Court decision to desegregate buses
  12. 23. refused to give up her seat on the bus
  13. 25. called for assertive and violent measures of protest
  14. 28. group that believed nothing would change without violence
  15. 29. managed to overturn segregation laws in many cities with peaceful protests
  16. 30. made segregation legal
Down
  1. 1. type of protesting MLK advocated for
  2. 2. city in Arkansas where 9 black students made history
  3. 4. marched from Selma to Mississippi
  4. 5. hate group who committed violent acts against blacks
  5. 7. 4 little girls died as a result
  6. 10. project designed to register black voters in Mississippi
  7. 13. fought for the rights of African-Americans
  8. 14. year that voting barriers became illegal
  9. 15. amendment that outlawed poll taxes
  10. 16. this group began the mass movement for civil rights
  11. 20. man who assassinated MLK
  12. 21. separation of races
  13. 24. amendment that granted ex-slaves citizenship
  14. 26. most famous leader of the Civil Rights Movement
  15. 27. city famous for holding sit-ins at Woolworth's