Civil Rights Movement

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