Civil Rights Review (Assessment Tomorrow, 5/22)

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Across
  1. 3. civil rights leader who did not believe in nonviolent tactics used by MLK
  2. 5. first and last name of woman who refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, prompting citywide bus boycott
  3. 8. CORE and SNCC students who hopped on interstate buses in the summer of '61 to make sure they and bus stations throughout the South were integrated
  4. 9. three-letter nickname for president that signed Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
  5. 13. first president to enforce the Brown decision
  6. 14. Dr. Clark used these to demonstrate that black kids were developing a low self-esteem as a result of society and segregation
  7. 15. Act outlawed literacy tests and deceptive tactics used to keep blacks from registering to vote
  8. 17. oldest civil rights group in the country, challenged segregation laws in the courts, rather than the streets
  9. 18. hurdle that racist Southern registrars would put up to keep blacks from voting; impossible to pass these
Down
  1. 1. first students to integrate Central High School in 1957
  2. 2. Alabama city where movement boycotted city buses to integrate them
  3. 4. last name of NAACP's most famous lawyer (and won the Brown case), would later become Supreme Court's first black justice
  4. 6. Alabama city and final civil rights campaign that centered to getting voting rights
  5. 7. used by Birmingham fire department to attack school children peacefully marching in Birmingham Alabama
  6. 10. law that outlawed segregation in restaurants and public facilities that receive federal funding
  7. 11. interracial civil rights group mostly made up of college kids
  8. 12. Eisenhower sent this branch of the military down to escort the Little Rock Nine
  9. 16. President who sent federal marshalls down to protect the Freedom Riders