Civil Rights by: Nathalie Willman

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Across
  1. 7. separation of races based on color, ethnicity, culture, etc.
  2. 8. equalization among races
  3. 9. first southern state to admit African American students to State universities without being required by a court order
  4. 11. wrote the famous "I Have A Dream" speech
  5. 13. led the desegregation campaign
  6. 14. project used to influence Congress to pass a voting rights act
  7. 16. organization that focused on civil rights for Black Muslims
Down
  1. 1. the battle-cry of militant civil rights activists
  2. 2. laws that limited African American rights
  3. 3. African American who joined the Nation of Islam and pushed for equal rights
  4. 4. 9 African American students who in 1948 entered an all-white school as a part of Blossom's plan
  5. 5. 1963 march led by Martin Luther King Jr.
  6. 6. 1966 political party founded by Huey newton and Bobby Seale
  7. 10. 1896 court case that ruled "separate but equal"
  8. 12. African American woman who refused to give up her bus seat for a white man
  9. 15. African American protesters who sat at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until served