Civil Rights Era Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Considered the most segregated city
  2. 5. B. Johnson Becomes president after JFK's assassination
  3. 8. Rights Act First federal civil rights legislation since Reconstruction
  4. 10. Parks Refused to give up her seat and was arrested
  5. 12. F. Kennedy Spoke on national television and pledged "equal rights and equal opportunities"
Down
  1. 1. Ended discrimination in defense industries
  2. 2. African Americans were dissuaded from registering to vote
  3. 4. Spoke out in the support of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  4. 6. facto segregation Unwritten segregation through customs, housing patterns, and traditions
  5. 7. Truman Desegregated the United States military
  6. 9. term causes Poverty, discrimination, and police brutality
  7. 11. War II Following the defeat of Hitler and his racist ideology, African Americans expected change within the United States