Civil Right Movement Review

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Across
  1. 3. _______ Sunday Police brutality during the march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
  2. 5. supreme court justice and civil rights attorney
  3. 8. organization created to advocate for the legal rights of people of color
  4. 13. student-led sit-in protests at lunch counter
  5. 14. _______ vs. Board of Education; court ruled "separate but equal" unconstitutional
  6. 17. refers to major approach to protest as advocated by Dr. King
  7. 19. delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, entitled "I Have a Dream"
  8. 21. April 4th, 1968, death Dr. King
Down
  1. 1. part of SNCC, encouraged student-led activism
  2. 2. refusal to buy goods and services as a means of protest
  3. 4. segregation in practice but not enforced by law
  4. 6. the 24th, banned poll taxes
  5. 7. state/local laws enforcing segregation and inequality
  6. 9. Civil Rights _______, 1965, outlawed discrimination and increased federal power of enforcement
  7. 10. Fair _______ Act, 1964, prohibited discrimination in sale, rental, and financing of housing
  8. 11. _______ X, prominent voice for Black dignity and self-determination
  9. 12. SNCC student leader who later served in congress
  10. 15. the legal and political rights of citizens
  11. 16. initiated Montgomery Bus boycott in 1955
  12. 18. one way that black voters were disenfranchised
  13. 20. organized Freedom Rides and nonviolent direct action initiatives