Unit 9 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. refers to the removal of segregationist barriers in society
  2. 3. was a labor union established to improve working conditions for migrant farm workers
  3. 6. was formed to fight discrimination against latinos
  4. 9. was a civil rights group of African Americans students who coordinated protests and worked to strengthen local communities.
  5. 10. involves refusing to obey laws that a person considers unjust
  6. 14. (1896) the Supreme Court determined that "separate but equal" segregated facilities were Constitutional
  7. 16. one who aggressively supports a cause
  8. 18. was organized for the purpose of empowering American Indians and expanding their rights.
Down
  1. 1. involves separating groups of race
  2. 4. emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as a movement that held that women are equal to men and deserved equal rights
  3. 5. practice of eliminating legal separation of races, ethnicities, or religious groups
  4. 7. condition in which all members of society have the same rights and opportunities
  5. 8. was a civil rights group that organized nonviolent protests to advocate for equal rights for African American
  6. 11. the current conditions
  7. 12. legally sanctioned individual freedoms guaranteed to citizens
  8. 13. was founded to promote women's rights and worked to win ratification of the ERA
  9. 15. was written to guarantee equal rights for women; it was never ratified
  10. 17. Worked to bring about equality for African Americans, often through legal challenges of segregation