Civil Rights - Keywords

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Across
  1. 2. - Civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955.
  2. 4. - the surname of the family who took the segregation of schools to court
  3. 6. - Strategy of peaceful protest promoted by Martin Luther King Jr.
  4. 8. - First name of the student at the centre of the school segregation case in Topeka, Kansas.
  5. 9. - Group of Black students who integrated a school in Arkansas in 1957.
  6. 11. - Laws that enforced racial separation in southern US states.
  7. 13. - Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott who promoted non-violent protest.
  8. 14. - the name of a law
  9. 15. - the act of killing someone by tying them to a tree with rope
Down
  1. 1. - A 381-day protest where African Americans refused to use buses after Rosa Parks was arrested.
  2. 3. - 1963 protests in Alabama involving police dogs and fire hoses.
  3. 5. - the name given to a group who often use violence and intimidation when they come together
  4. 7. - Civil rights leader who supported Black empowerment and self-defence.
  5. 10. - this restricted black voters
  6. 12. - the name of a proposed law