Civil Rights Project

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Across
  1. 5. He was President during the Civil Rights era.
  2. 6. Removed literacy test and secured voting rights for all races
  3. 9. "I have a dream"
  4. 12. 14-year-old who was killed from being accused of flirting with a white girl at the supermarket
  5. 13. 1st Grader that went alone to an all white school
  6. 15. Being enslaved, held, or owned as human property
  7. 18. Used as a political strategy to support the Civil Rights movement
  8. 19. People push after this since they didn't want segregation which made a bigger push for Civil Rights
  9. 20. March that happened in Selma, Alabama and just before crossing got attacked by white Alabama state troopers
  10. 21. Organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott
Down
  1. 1. Hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. got shot by
  2. 2. Rights to political and social equality
  3. 3. Famous civil rights speech happened here
  4. 4. A bus boycott, second one, led by Martin Luther King Jr.
  5. 7. African American woman whose cells are the HeLa cells, cervical cancer (1951)
  6. 8. Laws legal until the Civil Rights Act
  7. 10. Leader of Bloody Sunday
  8. 11. Killed Martin Luther King Jr.
  9. 14. Supreme case that desegregated schools
  10. 16. An NAACP attorney
  11. 17. She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man
  12. 18. A group that fought to end segregation and discrimination in Louisiana