Unit 6 Civil Rights

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Across
  1. 2. Rosa ___ began the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to move her seat.
  2. 6. This African-American civil rights activist was a member of the Nation of Islam before breaking from it.
  3. 7. the laws and restrictions put in place to deny african americans certain rights and liberties in the South
  4. 10. This national organization was founded in 1909 for racial equality
  5. 11. This 14-year-old African American boy was violently killed in Mississippi just for talking to a white woman.
  6. 12. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on ___.
  7. 13. Term for the keeping of races or ethnic groups apart.
  8. 14. the president who signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law
  9. 15. This president called for civil rights legislation before he was assassinated in 1963.
Down
  1. 1. This SNCC leader popularized the term “Black Power”
  2. 3. Leaders of this student group led sit-ins in Greensboro.
  3. 4. The ___ v. Board of Ed. case declared segregated schools unconstitutional.
  4. 5. Nine black students enrolled in a white high school here in Arkansas after desegregation.
  5. 8. This civil rights lawyer was the first black justice on the Supreme Court.
  6. 9. This civil rights leader led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and later won the Nobel Peace prize in 1964.