Civil Rights Crossword Clay Pittman

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Across
  1. 4. civil rights activist that encouraged blacks to take control of communities
  2. 5. People that tested the ban of segregated seating by taking a two-bus trip across the South
  3. 8. "Voice" at the 1964 Democratic National convention, also the daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers
  4. 10. Party that fought police brutality in the ghetto
  5. 11. Studied causes of urban violence, issued 200000-word report
  6. 14. Civil rights leader that believed in peaceful protests
  7. 15. Segregation by practice and custom
Down
  1. 1. making a special effort to hire groups that have been discriminated against
  2. 2. Project where union workers in the south registered as many African Americans as they could to vote
  3. 3. Black woman that refused to move from her seat on the bus
  4. 6. Segregation by law
  5. 7. Colored protesters sitting down at segregated lunch counters and refusing to leave
  6. 9. Act in 1964 that prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, or gender
  7. 12. Air force veteran, won court case allowing him to enroll in an all-white university
  8. 13. Act in 1965 that eliminated literacy tests