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