Across
- 3. this march showed encouragement for President Kennedy's Civil Rights bill
- 5. National Association for Advancement of Colored People
- 7. This march demonstrated a need for voting legislation in the South for African Americans. It ended in Montgomery and began in
- 8. laws were laws that enforced segregation in the south
- 10. James Early Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr as he demonstrated in this Tennessee location
- 13. Martin Luther King Jr encouraged civil ____
- 16. number of Little Rock students who were the first African Americans to attend the high school
- 17. woman who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus
- 18. the Voting rights act of 1965 outlawed tests assessing ___ for voter registration
- 19. student non violent coordinating committee
Down
- 1. the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is an example of early attempts of affirmative ___
- 2. Racist governor of Alabama
- 4. This bus boycott encouraged African Americans to find another way to work for an entire year.
- 6. 24th ___ was written to get rid of poll taxes for voters in the United States
- 7. students would go to restaurants and wait at the counter to be served in order to challenge segregation and discrimination against African Americans
- 9. spokesperson for the Nation of Islam who encouraged violence in the African American movement
- 11. Emmitt Till came from ___ but was visiting Missouri and was beaten to death by flirting with a white cashier
- 12. the kkk were known for attacking, beating and hanging African Americans, this action is known as ___
- 14. in Brown V. Board of education the Supreme court decided that it was not legal to allow segregation in ___
- 15. The supreme court decided this was legal in Plessy V. Ferguson