Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 2. Protest for voting rights that helped gather support for Voting Rights Act of 1965 because of white violence.
  2. 5. Peaceful protests against segregated lunch counters.
  3. 8. Court ruled Texas must revise its school funding system.
  4. 9. Established the constitutionality of “separate but equal”.
  5. 13. Artist used the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools and churches to depict Mexican- American culture.
  6. 14. Leader of Black Panther.
  7. 16. Attention to Native Americans discrimination.
  8. 20. Dr. King’s view on civil disobedience as means to enact change.
  9. 21. Prohibited poll taxes in federal elections.
  10. 22. Legalized abortions.
  11. 24. Abolish slavery.
  12. 25. Effort to end segregation on public transportation.
Down
  1. 1. Attempted to provide greater local opportunity for African American communities.
  2. 3. Founder of NAACP.
  3. 4. Didn’t agree with Martin Luther King J.r ways of his protest.
  4. 6. Ruled segregation in public schools illegal.
  5. 7. 9 African American students who enrolled in Little Rock Central High School.
  6. 10. 1st black woman elected to U.S. congress.
  7. 11. Started GI forum for veterans.
  8. 12. Promoted women's rights during 1966.
  9. 15. Grant citizenship/ due process of law to everyone born in U.S.
  10. 17. “I had a dream”.
  11. 18. Hispanics could not be excluded from juries.
  12. 19. Gave African American men suffrage.
  13. 23. Banned discrimination against females in schools and sports.