Across
- 2. The practice of discriminating against and segregating Black people in the South
- 4. This African American Civil Rights activist was a member of the Nation of Islam before breaking from it
- 8. This civil rights leader lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott and later won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
- 10. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" Speech at the March on
- 11. the movement of ending segregated facilities and accommodations
- 13. The ___________v. Board of Ed. declared segregated schools unconstitutional
- 17. This Civil Rights lawyer defended Brown
- 18. The ___________ Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices
- 20. This national organization was founded in 1909 for racial equality
- 22. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the ___________________ to fight for total equality
- 25. Usually associated with hanging, African Americans were subject to this in the deep south
- 26. Civil Rights group founded by James Farmer, its aim was to work for racial equality and even trained people on how to be nonviolent
- 27. Term for the keeping of races and ethnic groups apart
- 29. This president called for federal civil rights legislation before he was assassinated
Down
- 1. often known as most racist southern city in America that was home to unrest with Civil Rights Movement
- 3. She began the Montgomery Bus Boycott from refusing to move her seat
- 5. Ratified in 1964, this amendment ended poll taxes
- 6. Made "The Great Society" agenda to implement federal civil rights
- 7. the type of segregation by law or the justice system
- 9. name for group of demonstrators who rode busses into racist parts of the South
- 12. brave educated white woman who convinced Mayor West to desecrate the counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 14. a special type of test that assessed whether or not blacks were worthy enough to vote
- 15. teacher who bravely taught elementary students about racism with eye color
- 16. This young black teen was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi
- 19. Nine black students enrolled here after desegregation
- 21. The __________ Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination
- 23. Leaders of this student group led sit-ins in Greensboro; shock - troops
- 24. the Civil Rights group that Martin Luther King Jr. was most heavily associated with that was very active in organizing demonstrations
- 26. This leader popularized the term "Black Power"
- 28. the type of segregation by behavior, habit or inherent racism