Civil Rights

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Across
  1. 6. tests – Used to block African Americans from voting.
  2. 7. but equal – Policy upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson.
  3. 9. v. Board of Education – Court case that made school segregation illegal.
  4. 12. F. Kennedy – Signed the Equal Pay Law.
  5. 13. – Quality of Black facilities under segregation.
  6. 18. on Washington – Event where MLK gave his famous speech.
  7. 20. – Protests where students sat at lunch counters to demand service.
  8. 21. – People who work for social change.
  9. 24. taxes – Fees that kept Black citizens from voting.
  10. 25. integration – Process of ending school segregation.
  11. 26. Rock Nine – Group of students who integrated a white high school.
  12. 28. Pay Law – Law signed by JFK to ensure fair wages.
Down
  1. 1. Bus Boycott – Protest against segregated buses.
  2. 2. – Separation of people based on race.
  3. 3. protests – Nonviolent actions taken to oppose injustice.
  4. 4. rights – Main goal of the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
  5. 5. Martin Luther King Jr. – Leader of peaceful civil rights protests.
  6. 8. Eisenhower – Sent troops to protect Black students.
  7. 10. places – Where segregation was banned in 1964.
  8. 11. Rights Act of 1957 – Law that aimed to protect voting rights.
  9. 12. Crow Laws – Laws enforcing racial segregation.
  10. 14. Parks – Refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery.
  11. 15. v. Ferguson – Case that supported "separate but equal."
  12. 16. B. Johnson – Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  13. 17. Rights Act of 1964 – Law that outlawed segregation in public places.
  14. 19. disobedience – Nonviolent resistance to unfair laws.
  15. 20. Court – Body that ruled on civil rights cases.
  16. 22. change – What civil rights activists worked to achieve.
  17. 23. Amendment – Gave African American men the right to vote.
  18. 27. students – Those protected by federal troops in Little Rock.