Across
- 3. A policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities
- 4. converted to Nation of Islam in jail in the 50s, became Black Muslims' most dynamic street orator and recruiter
- 6. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
- 8. Racial segregation that occurs because of laws or administrative decisions by public agencies.
- 12. In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in Washington to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The high point came when MLK Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 marchers in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Down
- 1. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
- 2. Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
- 5. 50's migration where middle-class white Americans fled to suburbs leaving inner cities to decay
- 7. A tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote
- 9. founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans
- 10. churches link together to inform blacks about changes in the Civil Rights Movement, led by MLK Jr., was a success
- 11. a group established in 1960 to promote and use non-violent means to protest racial discrimination; they were the ones primarily responsible for creating the sit-in movement