Segregation

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Across
  1. 3. Primary elections in which only whites were allowed to vote.
  2. 5. Black civil rights leader from Atlanta
  3. 9. The science of farming.
  4. 13. A landmark 1954 case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that race-based segregation of public school students to be unconstitutional.
  5. 14. A partnership of the civil rights organization and churches that worked for desigregation and other civil rights.
  6. 15. a partnership of the Advancement of Colored People and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who workeed together to end segregation.
  7. 16. An organization formed in 1960 to further the cause of equal rights for minorities.
Down
  1. 1. A commission charged by Governor Ernest Vandiver to study segregation in Georgia.
  2. 2. In 1964 Georgia's govern-elet Eugene Talmadge, died before taking office.
  3. 4. Civil Rights leader who was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating and organized the 1963 march on Washington.
  4. 6. A segregationist who rose to fame after refusing to serve African Americans in his restaurant.
  5. 7. Two-term mayor of Atlanta during the civil rights era.
  6. 8. The two-time mayor of Atlanta who helped develop the city's airport into teh major trasportation hub it has become today.
  7. 10. A national movement by African Americans in the 1950's and 1960's to end segregation and ensure equal rights of minorities.
  8. 11. Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
  9. 12. August 28 1963 approximately 250,000 people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial to demand equal protection for African Americans.