Unit 8

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Across
  1. 6. Civil rights activist who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  2. 8. Civil rights leader advocating Black pride and self-defense.
  3. 11. Large increase in births after WWII.
  4. 12. Movement of white families from cities to suburbs.
  5. 14. Supreme Court case ending school segregation.
  6. 16. Literary movement rejecting traditional values.
  7. 18. Segregation by practice, not law.
  8. 19. Developed the polio vaccine.
  9. 20. Johnson’s programs to end poverty and racial injustice.
  10. 22. 35th U.S. president.
  11. 25. Activists who challenged segregation on buses.
  12. 26. First African American Supreme Court justice.
  13. 28. Term describing JFK’s presidency as idealistic.
  14. 29. Health insurance for the elderly.
Down
  1. 1. Redrawing voting districts based on population.
  2. 2. rights leader advocating nonviolence.
  3. 3. Banned segregation and discrimination.
  4. 4. Mexican workers brought to the U.S. for farm labor.
  5. 5. Television, radio, and print that influenced public opinion.
  6. 7. Kennedy’s reform program.
  7. 9. Residential communities outside cities that grew rapidly after WWII.
  8. 10. Southern Democrats who opposed civil rights reforms.
  9. 13. Protected voting rights for minorities.
  10. 15. Segregation enforced by law.
  11. 17. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren.
  12. 21. Truman’s plan to expand social welfare programs.
  13. 22. First African American student at the University of Mississippi.
  14. 23. Investigated JFK’s assassination.
  15. 24. Government programs to rebuild cities.
  16. 27. Health insurance for low-income people.