Unit #5 civil rights crossword

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Across
  1. 6. 1964 project to register Black voters in Mississippi
  2. 7. Group of students who integrated Central High School in 1957
  3. 9. SNCC leader who coined the term "Black Power"
  4. 10. 14-year-old whose 1955 murder sparked national outrage
  5. 12. Activists who rode buses into the South to protest segregated terminals
  6. 15. The slogan used by protesters to demand economic and political equity
  7. 16. The 1965 Act that prohibited racial discrimination in voting
  8. 17. Organization co-founded by MLK (Abbr.)
  9. 18. NAACP secretary murdered in Mississippi in 1963
  10. 19. City where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
  11. 20. Alabama city where the "Bloody Sunday" march began in 1965
Down
  1. 1. This 1964 Act ended segregation in public places
  2. 2. The year MLK was assassinated in Memphis
  3. 3. City where the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins began
  4. 4. Youth-led organization founded after the sit-ins (Abbr.)
  5. 5. State where the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) was integrated
  6. 8. The 1963 event where MLK delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech
  7. 11. The 1954 Supreme Court case that ended "separate but equal"
  8. 13. Civil rights leader who advocated for "by any means necessary"
  9. 14. Lead attorney in Brown v. Board and first Black SCOTUS justice