The Civil Rights Movement by Madison Brown

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Across
  1. 2. all of MLK'S marches and protests were _____________ and peaceful.
  2. 4. when crowds of civil rights activists got together and _________ down the streets.
  3. 7. a city in Alabama that was known well for its intense segregation of blacks and brutal outbreaks.
  4. 8. founded on a Chicago campus started out as mainly a white northern group but eventually began to help African Americans.
  5. 12. president Truman issues an executive order requiring integration in the armed forces.
  6. 13. supreme court that "seperate but equal was allowed" Jim crow laws were passed to seperate blacks and whites.
  7. 15. the place where Brown vs board of education took place.
  8. 16. a young black boy who was brutally killed and thrown in a river
  9. 18. Was a famous civil rights leader, killed at a hotel
  10. 22. when African Americans refused to ride the buses in Montgomery it was known as the _________.
  11. 23. refused to give up her bus seat to a white man
  12. 25. the court case that allowed the little rock nine to attend the all white high school.
  13. 26. key milestones of the civil rights movement; congress passed a law forbidding racial discrimination in public accomodations.
  14. 27. organization that fought for the rights of African Americans, oldest civil rights organization in America.
Down
  1. 1. a group of civil rights activists rode across the country promoting black rights
  2. 3. a NAACP lawyer who represented the children in the Brown vs the board of education case.
  3. 4. the place where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while giving a speech supporting sanitation workers.
  4. 5. MLK's speech was called the ________speech
  5. 6. the amendment that granted ex-slaves citizenship; and garunteed equal protection and due process.
  6. 9. student non-violent coordinating committee, they managed sit in protests and their success helped overturn segregation.
  7. 10. project that gathered college students from everywhere to help register blacks to vote.
  8. 11. the church that was bombed during service 4 little girls were killed.
  9. 14. nine African American kids who fought for their right to attend an all white school were known as the ____________.
  10. 17. "knowingly and deliberately violating a law that is perceived to be unjust and willingly accepting the consequences for such an action"
  11. 19. the march from Selma to the capital city of Montgomery, met with resistance from police officers broke out into bloody fights.
  12. 20. was a violent African American protester who was Muslim, later on he was killed by a black muslim.
  13. 21. the amendment that allowed blacks to vote in America
  14. 24. Violence in Selma helped shine light on the dire urge for equal rights of African Americans to vote.