Civil rights movement heroes.

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Across
  1. 4. The heavy weight champion of 1964.
  2. 5. Murdered at 14 for speaking to a White lady wrong.
  3. 6. First full time member of the Mississippi NAACP.
  4. 8. One of the first AA kids to go to a white school.
  5. 9. Arrested many times and came up with the slogan "Black power"
  6. 10. The head of the Montgomery NAACP.
  7. 14. Fought for female and civil rights.
  8. 15. A labor worker who guided the 1963 march on Washington.
  9. 17. Good friend of MLK and went to jail several times with him.
  10. 18. First AA student to go to University of Mississippi
  11. 19. Sued the University of Georgia for not allowing AA students.
Down
  1. 1. Was known for his famous "stop singing and start swinging"
  2. 2. fired from her job and kicked out her home for trying to vote.
  3. 3. Pushed businesses and government for equal job opportunities.
  4. 5. An official from the NAACP who spoke up for grassroots.
  5. 7. Attempted to join the University of Alabama but was kicked out.
  6. 8. Executive director of NAACP and strongly supported non violent protests.
  7. 11. Was a white mother who drove an AA one day and was killed by the kkk after.
  8. 12. A NAACP lawyer who fought in brown v. board of education.
  9. 13. Founder of SNCC and was a part of the big civil rights protest
  10. 16. Went to jail 20 times for fighting for freedom.