Across
- 2. Legal freeing of enslaved people
- 4. Gaining strength and confidence
- 7. Post–Civil War rebuilding era
- 8. Fair treatment under the law
- 11. Cultural traditions passed down
- 12. Unity in shared purpose
- 13. Colleges founded to educate Black students
- 16. State of being free from oppression
- 18. 1964 law banning segregation
- 19. Voting‑rights march across Edmund Pettus Bridge
- 20. Direct action for social change
Down
- 1. Bus protest sparked by Rosa Parks
- 3. Act of being set free
- 5. Cultural flowering of Black art and literature
- 6. Holiday marking the end of slavery in Texas
- 9. Condition of having the same rights
- 10. Ability to recover from hardship
- 14. Supreme Court case ending school segregation
- 15. 1963 rally where MLK Jr. delivered a famous speech
- 17. Dispersion of a people across regions