"Modern" Civil Rights Crossword

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  1. 1. State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  2. 6. First Black military aviators in the U.S. armed forces during World War II.
  3. 9. First African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era.
  4. 13. Civil rights leader known for grassroots organizing and work with SNCC and NAACP. She founded SNCC.
  5. 14. 1961 protests where integrated groups rode interstate buses in the segregated South.
  6. 17. Leader of the Civil Rights Movement known for his nonviolent protest and “I Have a Dream” speech.
  7. 18. African American Navy hero at Pearl Harbor who manned anti-aircraft guns during the attack.
  8. 19. Nonviolent protests where African Americans sat at segregated lunch counters.
  9. 20. Civil rights activist who advocated for Black empowerment “by any means necessary.”
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  1. 2. First African American child to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960.
  2. 3. Central goal of the Civil Rights Movement, secured in part by the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
  3. 4. Former enslaved man who became a powerful abolitionist speaker and writer in the 1800s.
  4. 5. Militant civil rights group founded in 1966 to monitor police brutality and promote Black empowerment.
  5. 7. U.S. President who ordered the desegregation of the armed forces in 1948.
  6. 8. Group of African American students who integrated Central High School in Arkansas in 1957.
  7. 10. Landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision declaring school segregation unconstitutional.
  8. 11. Process of ending the separation of races, especially in schools and the military.
  9. 12. President during the early 1960s who supported civil rights and proposed new legislation.
  10. 15. Civil rights activist who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat.
  11. 16. First African American Supreme Court Justice and lead lawyer in Brown v. Board.