Civil Rights Movement events and leaders

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Across
  1. 4. - City in Alabama where a landmark voting rights march took place in 1965
  2. 8. - Common form of protest used during the Civil Rights Movement
  3. 10. - Alabama city where the Montgomery bus boycott took place
  4. 12. - Process of ending racial segregation
  5. 13. v. Board of Education - Landmark Supreme Court case that struck down racial segregation in schools
  6. 14. Riders - Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses to challenge segregation
  7. 15. Rights Act - Landmark legislation signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting
Down
  1. 1. - Alabama city where the Children's Crusade took place
  2. 2. Parks - Civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus
  3. 3. - Protest tactic used during the Montgomery bus boycott
  4. 5. Evers - Civil rights leader who was assassinated in Mississippi in 1963
  5. 6. X - Civil rights activist and Muslim minister who advocated for black nationalism
  6. 7. - Form of protest where demonstrators occupy a space until their demands are met
  7. 9. - Ideal that was central to the Civil Rights Movement
  8. 11. Luther King Jr. - Civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated for nonviolent resistance