Civil Rights Movement Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. The act of separating people based on race
  2. 4. Civil rights organization led by Martin Luther King Jr., promoting nonviolence
  3. 8. Landmark Supreme Court case that ended segregation in public schools
  4. 12. Event where MLK said the "I Have a Dream" speech
  5. 14. A march from Selma to this city led to the Voting Rights Act
  6. 15. this person refused to get up from her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama
  7. 17. A type of peaceful protest used at lunch counters to force integration
  8. 19. this organization burned busses and buildings
  9. 20. Amendment outlawing poll taxes
Down
  1. 1. Governor of Arkansas who resisted integration
  2. 2. Phrase used to describe the South’s laws enforcing racial segregation
  3. 5. state where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
  4. 6. tool used by police in Birmingham against protestors
  5. 7. Integrated bus rides across the South to challenge segregation
  6. 9. Place where nine African American students faced violent opposition to integration
  7. 10. Act that ended legal segregation in public
  8. 11. Law that banned racial discrimination in housing
  9. 13. Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and “I Have a Dream” speechwriter
  10. 16. Young boy whose 1955 murder helped push the movement forward
  11. 18. Organization founded in 1909 to fight for racial equality