Civil Rites

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Across
  1. 1. "he regarded hunger strikes as a powerful form of nonviolent protest"
  2. 5. the right to vote in political elections.
  3. 6. withdraws from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.
  4. 7. a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and '60s. He was a leader of the American civil rights movement. He organized a number of peaceful protests as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including the March on Washington in 1963.
  5. 8. combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole. "transportation planning should be integrated with energy policy"
  6. 10. a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.
  7. 11. he unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people
  8. 13. mandates segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants.
Down
  1. 2. the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.
  2. 3. the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School
  3. 4. he action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.
  4. 9. renaissance woman, visionary, civil rights icon and an award-winning journalist
  5. 12. she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens.