Civil Rights Movement Crossword!

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