Civil Rights Movement

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  1. 3. Activist whose arrest sparked the bus boycott
  2. 4. Man who challenged segregation on a Louisiana train
  3. 5. Civil rights leader who believed in Black self-defense
  4. 6. Governor who tried to block school integration (first name = Orval)
  5. 10. Activist leader who fought for farmworkers’ rights
  6. 11. Indian activist whose nonviolence inspired King
  7. 13. LBJ’s plan to end poverty and racial injustice
  8. 14. President who sent troops to Arkansas to protect Black students
  9. 17. International prize MLK won in 1964
  10. 18. Law that banned voting barriers like literacy tests (1965)
  11. 21. SNCC leader who helped lead the Selma march
  12. 25. Plessy v ____ was the Supreme Court case that upheld “separate but equal”
  13. 29. Organizer of the 1963 March on Washington
  14. 30. Selma, Alabama sheriff who attacked voting rights marchers
  15. 31. Civil ____ is peacefully breaking unjust laws to demand change
  16. 33. City where a famous bus boycott began in 1955
  17. 34. First Black player in modern Major League Baseball
Down
  1. 1. City where marchers demanded the right to vote
  2. 2. Dodgers executive who signed Robinson
  3. 3. Rule requiring federal approval of voting law changes
  4. 7. Birmingham official who used violence on protestors (nickname = "Bull")
  5. 8. NAACP lawyer who became a Supreme Court justice (first name = Thurgood)
  6. 9. The Great ____ was the 20th-century movement of Black families from the South to the North
  7. 12. Young protester killed during a voting rights march in Selma
  8. 15. Where King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963
  9. 16. ___ v Board of Education was the Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools
  10. 19. King’s organization that led nonviolent civil rights actions
  11. 20. City where nine Black students integrated a high school
  12. 22. Law that banned segregation in public places (1964)
  13. 23. Alabama city where children marched against segregation
  14. 24. Chief Justice during *Brown v. Board* decision (first name = Earl)
  15. 26. Student activist group known for sit-ins and Freedom Rides
  16. 27. Civil rights group that fought segregation in court
  17. 28. Leader of the Civil Rights Movement who believed in nonviolence
  18. 32. President who signed major civil rights laws