American Civil Rights

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Across
  1. 2. The organisation founded by Martin Luther King Jr. to promote nonviolent protest (Southern Christian Leadership ______).
  2. 4. The state where the Little Rock Nine integrated a high school.
  3. 6. The 14-year-old boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.
  4. 9. The city where peaceful protests were met with violent police resistance, leading to national outrage.
  5. 11. The U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional (v. Board of Education).
  6. 15. The activists who rode interstate buses to challenge segregation laws.
  7. 16. The peaceful form of protest used by students at lunch counters.
  8. 17. The African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955.
Down
  1. 1. The militant civil rights group advocating for self-defense and social programs.
  2. 3. The leader who promoted Black empowerment and self-defense, later advocating for racial
  3. 5. The law passed in 1964 that banned segregation and discrimination in public places.
  4. 7. The set of laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  5. 8. The leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (last name).
  6. 10. The first African American student to integrate the University of Mississippi (first name: James).SITIN The peaceful form of protest used by students at lunch counters.
  7. 12. The legal case that followed Rosa Parks’ arrest, leading to a Supreme Court ruling on bus segregation.
  8. 13. The movement that aimed to secure voting rights for African Americans, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  9. 14. The famous speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 ("I Have a _______").