Civil Rights Movements

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Across
  1. 2. As a protester, he was against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and racial discrimination on educational and employment levels.
  2. 3. after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
  3. 5. Segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional in a 1954 ruling.
  4. 6. Believed in none violent approches, and received the Peace Prize for his leadership.
  5. 7. There were over 200,000 participants in the 1963 march for jobs and freedom to demand civil and economic rights for African Americans.
  6. 10. Two returning Vietnam War veterans were welcomed home during a police raid on an illegal after-hours drinking club.
  7. 12. A set of laws in the South that enforced racial segregation.
  8. 13. The first day of school for her was escorted by four armed federal marshals.
  9. 14. Several community programs aimed at protecting African American neighborhoods from police brutality.
  10. 15. the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
  11. 16. Central High School desegregated that welcomed its first Black students.
  12. 18. Six whites and seven blacks boarded two buses bound for New Orleans.
  13. 19. At first believed in violent approches but later on changed his mind, which lead to his death.
Down
  1. 1. While protesters attempted to march peacefully, state troopers beat them violently.
  2. 2. It was one of the most costly and largest urban rebellions of the Civil Rights era due to its duration and cost of property damage over six days.
  3. 4. A lawyer who Used the courts to end Jim Crow and desegregation in the U.S.
  4. 8. After refusing to give up her bus seat, she was called the "mother of the civil rights movement."
  5. 9. "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"
  6. 11. In the deeply divided South, he bravely spoke out against racism.
  7. 17. rumors that was spread by a female of a boy whistleing at her.