Civil rights

4. public disorder and destruction of property or person as a way of protest
8. set the "separate by equal" precedent in the US
10. passed during reconstruction they abolished slavery, gave citizenship, and voting rights to newly freed African Americans
14. supreme court case that ordered the desegregation of schools in the U.S.
16. civil rights organization founded in 1942
17. Keeping races apart.
19. Black teenager brutally murdered in 1955, which shed light on Southern violence.
20. civil rights organization that tried to protect blacks from police brutality
22. Civil Rights organization set up by MLK.
23. broke the color barrier in baseball by signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers
24. refused to give up her seat on a bus, her arrest sparked the Montgomery bus boycott

1. Racial segregations laws directed at blacks mostly in the South
2. Volunteers rode the interstate bus system to test the Supreme Court's decision that segregated bus terminals were unconstitutional
3. president that signed Executive Order 9981, desegregating the armed forces
5. Civil Rights campaign organized after the assassination of JFK, to increase voter registration in the South.
6. 1st African American supreme court judge and appointed to the US Court of Appeals by JFK
7. governor that fought the desegregation of the University of Alabama
9. The president who signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
11. civil rights organization that preached about black nationalism and black pride, Malcolm X was a member at one point.
12. organization founded by WEB DuBois and 59 others
13. U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled that “anti-miscegenation” statutes were unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment
15. ordered the arrest of the freedom riders and block James Meredith from attending the University of Mississippi
18. The president who signed the Civil Rights Act in 1957.
21. A civil rights organization founded in April 1960 by young people (mostly college students) dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics