44 - Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 4. – City where MLK led a campaign for fair housing in 1966.
  2. 5. – Journalist who reported on racial injustice in the South.
  3. 8. – Community organizer who worked with SNCC in rural areas.
  4. 9. – Birmingham businessman and civil rights supporter.
  5. 13. – 19th-century abolitionist who inspired later civil rights activists.
  6. 14. – First Black student to integrate the University of Mississippi.
Down
  1. 1. – Historian and activist who supported civil rights and wrote A People’s History.
  2. 2. – Writer and speaker who powerfully expressed the Black experience.
  3. 3. – Prestigious prize awarded to MLK in 1964.
  4. 6. – First name of the woman who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  5. 7. – Poet of the Harlem Renaissance who inspired generations of activists.
  6. 8. – Last name of the man famously blocked from entering University of Alabama by Governor Wallace.
  7. 10. – City where marchers were attacked on Bloody Sunday.
  8. 11. – Vehicle central to a year-long boycott protesting segregation.
  9. 12. – Site of early activism led by MLK while he was a young pastor.