Civil Rights Crossword

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  1. 2. Another Civil Rights leader who took more of a violent approach
  2. 4. Used to prevent African Americans from voting
  3. 7. Murdered MLKJR
  4. 8. An alien.
  5. 9. A man’s name and a bird’s name
  6. 12. also known as a famous U2 song.
  7. 13. Committee that removed segregation on transportation.
  8. 15. Black history month
  9. 19. A protest that didn’t involve marching, picketing, or boycotting.
  10. 23. The Civil Right Movement promoted this
  11. 25. He was followed by the F.B.I. throughout his entire career during the Civil Rights Movement
  12. 27. First black student that attended Mississippi University.
  13. 28. This amendment ended a poll tax that kept African American citizens from voting
  14. 29. The court thought segregation wasn’t constitutional in this supreme court case.
  15. 31. This president sent troops to help students attend school against rioters.
  16. 33. Three civil rights teenagers were killed for this crime.
  17. 34. Riots that happened in LA California, not to be mistaken for power of a light bulb.
  18. 35. A place in Georgia which started the SCLC
  19. 37. to hear MLK’s speech (Hint: Has to do with a month and a state)
  20. 40. Beyonce did a mock of this in the Super Bowl.
  21. 41. Issued Executive Order 9981
  22. 42. Small boulder.
Down
  1. 1. Civil rights organization that fights peacefully for what’s right(not an oxymoron)
  2. 3. a bus boycott that took place in this town thanks to Rosa Parks.
  3. 5. This woman “parks” herself in the front seat of a bus and gets arrested
  4. 6. MLK wrote this while in jail.
  5. 10. 200,000 black and white people stood outside
  6. 11. Los Angeles riot that resulted in 34 deaths
  7. 14. Declares discrimination illegal based on race.
  8. 16. These African Americans used public transport on purpose to support the cause.
  9. 17. Thurgood (Rank).
  10. 18. The center of the Earth
  11. 20. First black man in this government position in 85 years.
  12. 21. Didn’t like black people very much.
  13. 22. Mean governor who stops students from going to school
  14. 24. Speech that MLK wrote
  15. 25. Southern congressmen who don’t like desegregation, who called themselves the southern ______.
  16. 26. He set up the executive order 8802
  17. 30. This killed Medgar Evers.
  18. 32. Where a congressman talks nonsense for a long time.
  19. 36. A bombing that happened in 1963
  20. 38. This was ordered for military reserve units
  21. 39. Evers He was shot outside his home, he was head of the NAACP.