Civil Rights: a recap

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Across
  1. 4. location of the 1954 bus boycott
  2. 6. arguably the most iconic leader of the civil rights movement from 1954
  3. 7. Stokely Carmichael questioned their involvement in the movement
  4. 8. the kind of racism that is based on the way systems function e.g. justice or education rather than the attitudes of individuals
  5. 11. one way voting rights were suppressed was by using these kinds of tests to exclude black Americans from registering to vote
  6. 12. one example of non violent direct action used to challenge the segregation of lunch counters
  7. 14. the organisation founded by Ella Baker and later led by John Lewis
  8. 15. where was the huge march in support of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill
  9. 17. the President who passed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
  10. 19. Bull Connor used these as well as police dogs against civil rights activists in 1963
  11. 20. who said black Americans should use "any means necessary" to achieve "the rights of a human being in this society"
Down
  1. 1. the right to do this is guaranteed by the 15th Amendment
  2. 2. the 14th amendment to this document guaranteed all citizens equal protection under the law
  3. 3. Jim Crow laws were designed to ensure this in the South of the US
  4. 5. the president associated with the end of slavery in the United States
  5. 9. younger activists felt that progress towards racial equality was too...
  6. 10. the ideology Stokely Carmichael is associated with
  7. 13. the city in Alabama determined to be one of the most segregated in the south
  8. 16. a practice that took place for more than 300 years
  9. 18. a group who often targeted black Americans