Across
- 2. group established in 1960 to promote and use non-violent means to protest racial discrimination; they were the ones primarily responsible for creating the sit-in movement
- 5. A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote.
- 8. 14 year old boy that was killed by whites for flirting with a white woman. His mother had an open casket to reveal the horrors of what had been done to him.
- 10. 1952; renamed himself X to signify the loss of his African heritage; converted to Nation of Islam in jail in the 50s, became Black Muslims' most dynamic street orator and recruiter; his beliefs were the basis of a lot of the Black Power movement built on seperationist and nationalist impulsesto achieve true independence and equality
- 11. Tax A tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote
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- 1. 50's migration where middle-class white Americans fled to suburbs leaving inner cities to decay
- 2. churches link together to inform blacks about changes in the Civil Rights Movement, led by MLK Jr., was a success
- 3. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
- 4. helped increase voting among blacks by information
- 6. Protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites only" lunch counters and refused to leave until served; in 1960 over 50,000 participated in sit-ins across the South. Their success prompted the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
- 7. 50 mile March
- 9. founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans, got Supreme Court to declare grandfather clause unconstitutional