Civil Rights Leaders

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  1. 2. an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
  2. 4. an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
  3. 8. also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist
  4. 9. one of three American activists of the Civil Rights Movement murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan
  5. 10. was instrumental in ending legal segregation and became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court.
  6. 15. as a U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama
  7. 16. A plaintiff in the Supreme Court case to desegrate schools
  8. 17. an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and to enact social justice and voting rights
  9. 19. an American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"
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  1. 1. an activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. She was murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan for her efforts.
  2. 3. an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party
  3. 5. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  4. 6. a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties.
  5. 7. a civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962.
  6. 11. one of three Congress of Racial Equality field workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by the Ku Klux Klan in response to their civil rights work,
  7. 12. Baptist minister who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was a close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.
  8. 13. an African-American political activist and revolutionary who, along with ___________, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.
  9. 14. was one of three American civil rights workers who were murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
  10. 18. an American political activist. He and fellow activist ___________ co-founded the Black Panther Party