Across
- 6. a court case that ended with a unanimous vote for the separate but equal doctrine
- 7. law signed by LBJ, it outlawed literacy tests & allowed federal officials to oversee registration
- 11. NAACP secretary who prompted the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat in 1955
- 12. The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality
- 13. pastor & civil rights leader who led SCLC and organized non-violent protests throughout the south
Down
- 1. groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals
- 2. civil rights event which led to the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 64
- 3. separation of the races which occurs because of laws
- 4. A political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States
- 5. Southern laws which separated the races after Plessy v. Ferguson
- 8. president created first civil rights bill of 1960s & protected freedom riders with federal escorts
- 9. Black Muslim spokesman who called for armed self-defense against white racism & violence
- 10. militant civil rights political party created in CA due to police brutality