Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 2. Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  2. 3. Rides/Freedom Riders rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places
  3. 5. bus boycott/ The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
  4. 7. what the African Americans were aiming to abolish
  5. 8. abstain from buying or using until conditions are met
  6. 9. Parks/ Started bus boycott, refused seat for a white person
Down
  1. 1. everybody is equal
  2. 4. Robinson/Baseball player who broke the color barrier
  3. 6. vs Board of Education/Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional, overturned Plessey v Ferguson.
  4. 7. in/Nonviolent protests in which a person sits and refuses to leave.