Across
- 2. best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
- 3. outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting
- 8. Difficult reading tests required in order to vote
- 9. civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961
- 11. held in Washington to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
- 12. 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi
Down
- 1. The most famous civil rights activist
- 4. fees required to vote
- 5. one of the most famous speeches ever
- 6. a Black revolutionary organization that fought for racial equality and justice in the United States from 1966 to 1982.
- 7. unwritten segregation through customs, housing patterns, and traditions
- 10. Designed to separate blacks and whites