Civil Right Vocabulary: Chapter 25

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Across
  1. 2. The symbol and inspiration of the black power movement
  2. 4. physical self defense or violence were acceptable in civil rights struggle
  3. 6. Arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat
  4. 10. President who intervened and sent the U.S. military to Arkansas to get the 9 black student into Central High.
  5. 11. President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  6. 13. discrimination or prejudice based upon race
  7. 14. Senators keep speaking to stop a bill from being voted on
  8. 17. Their leader was Stokely Carmichael
  9. 18. First African American Supreme Court justice who argued, successfully, 29 of 32 cases before the court and was known as "Mr. Civil Rights".
Down
  1. 1. City where Dr. King was jailed and where he wrote a letter in defense of nonviolent protest
  2. 3. Segregation by custom
  3. 4. The form of nonviolent protest used in Montgomery after a black woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat.
  4. 5. Teams of volunteers, mostly college students, who worked to desegregate interstate bus travel
  5. 7. City where police brutally attacked marchers who were supporting a new voting rights bill.
  6. 8. President elected in 1960 who promised to support the civil rights movement.
  7. 9. motion that cuts off debate and forces a vote
  8. 12. A form of protest used in restaurants that denied service to African Americans
  9. 15. City where 9 black students were denied entrance into Central High School by the state's governor.
  10. 16. A group of African American ministers led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr who worked to eliminate segregation.