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