American Civil Rights Movement

5. Requires schools/employers to recruit minorities to correct inequalities
6. Era of American history following the Civil War that created the political climate that would eventually lead to the Civil Rights Movement a century later
8. Segregation imposed by social condition
13. Segregation imposed by law
14. Initials of the Civil Rights Activist who garnered international attention for his peaceful approach to ending segregation
16. Campaign characterized by mass arrests of black Americans preforming peaceful protests in an attempt to override local jails
17. Peaceful movement characterized by black Americans who would calmly sit in segregated restaurants before facing harassment
19. A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies
20. Protester and activist famous for refusing to give up her bus seat

1. Name of the 1963 march for civil/black rights, and the largest march in American history at the time
2. Name of the segregation laws that were deemed constitutional in Plessy v Ferguson
3. Name of the Islamic leader who advocated for Black Nationalism
4. The Arkansas movement following Brown v Board where black children attempted to attend formerly segregated schools
7. Day named after the peaceful Selma to Montgomery march that was violently stunted by police
9. Southern interstate buses boarded by activists testing new desegregation laws
10. Leader and founder of the Black Panthers
11. The major war in the 1940s that temporarily stunted the rising Civil Rights Movement before the end of the war intensified it
12. The 1964 project that attempted to increase voter registration among southern black communities
15. Los Angeles riots the ensued shortly following the implementation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. Supreme court case that ruled segregation as unconstitutional