Civil Rights Topic 1

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Across
  1. 4. Leader/Founder of CORE
  2. 7. name of the president who had to intervene in little rock
  3. 8. Civil Rights group that takes cases to the supreme/district court
  4. 13. the act of speaking for a long time in order to block the passing of a bill
  5. 14. surname of the man who challenged the board of education in 1954
  6. 15. the US Legislative body
Down
  1. 1. name given to separating white and black people
  2. 2. southern democrats who opposed civil rights
  3. 3. the month that the bus boycott began
  4. 5. Civil Rights group set up my Martin Luther King
  5. 6. surname of one of the civil rights activists involved in the bus boycott along with MLK
  6. 8. 2 words that describes MLK's approach to civil rights
  7. 9. martin luther king's religion
  8. 10. capital of Alabama
  9. 11. surname of the governor who closed the schools in Arkansas to stop desegregation after little rock
  10. 12. name of the group set up to oversee the bus boycott