Civil Rights Crossword

2. 14 year old African American that was lynched and brutally beaten after being accused of offending a white woman at the grocery store
7. civil rights association created by student activist from the south.
8. US Baptist minister and civil rights leader. Opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing non violent resistance and PEACEFUL mass demonstrations.
9. a group that was appointed by President Johnson to study the cases of urban violence and that recommended the elimination of de facto segregation.
12. the scandal that was about the break in at the Democratic National Committee offices in Washington which was carried out under White House employees
14. 1964 riots in high started in an African American ghetto of LA and left 30 dead and 1000 wounded.
16. song by Billie Holiday, became an anthem for the civil rights movement
17. MLK’s aid through most of the civil rights movement that was kept a secret because of his morals arrest and supposed homosexuality.

1. in 1969 when NYPD raided a gay bar that led patrons to fighting back. Became a symbol of oppression of gays and started the gay pride movement later.
3. a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and Whites who rode busses together throughout the American south
4. a group of mostly African American ministers who worked to fight injustice through nonviolence led by MLK
5. the boycott that was led by MLK after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusal to give up her seat
6. chairman of the Black Panther party, was murdered by white policemen who raided his apartment.
7. African American political activist, founder and national chairman of the Black Panther Party.
10. President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform this.
11. Civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
13. campaign that consisted of nonviolent protests for civil rights in Alabama.
15. powerful advocate for black empowerment and self defense, contrasted MLK’s nonviolent approach.