Across
- 4. a group of people gathered together to show their anger/ disapproval for something, usually for the government
- 5. the letter king wrote after being arrested at a peaceful protest in Birmingham, Alabama
- 7. a black man murdered by police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25th, 2020. His murder started protest in many cities in the USA
- 10. a group that protests discrimination against African Americans by the police
- 11. an African American seamstress who refused to give up a seat on the bus which inspired Civil Rights Movement
- 12. a black women that was murdered in her house by police while she was sleeping on March 13th 2020. There were many protests across the USA because of her death.
Down
- 1. when the police are too violent/ aggressive against someone they are trying to arrest or control
- 2. a baptist pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. His start as a Civil Rights leader came during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 3. a peaceful way of protesting against restrictive racial policies
- 6. protest by African Americans in Alabama, against racial segregation in the bus system
- 8. a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
- 9. a belief that some people are better than others because of their race