Civil War, Civil Rights, and Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. The amendment that gave Black men the right to vote
  2. 3. The leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and March on Washington
  3. 6. The organization that helped formerly enslaved people after the Civil War
  4. 9. The amendment that outlawed poll taxes, helping protect Black voting rights
  5. 12. Laws in the South that restricted African Americans’ rights after the Civil War
  6. 17. The first African American U.S. president
  7. 19. The act that banned segregation in public places in 1964
  8. 21. The general who led the Confederate Army
  9. 22. This 1860 election victory by a Republican candidate sparked Southern secession and Civil War
  10. 23. The laws enforcing racial segregation in the South
  11. 24. The period after the Civil War aimed at rebuilding the South
  12. 25. The Supreme Court case that established “separate but equal”
Down
  1. 1. The amendment that abolished slavery
  2. 4. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War
  3. 5. The first state to secede from the Union
  4. 7. The inventor who improved the lightbulb’s filament
  5. 8. The organization that fought for Black rights, founded in 1909
  6. 10. The amendment that granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people
  7. 11. The document that freed enslaved people in Confederate states
  8. 13. The movement in the 1950s and 1960s for racial equality
  9. 14. The journalist and activist who led anti-lynching campaigns
  10. 15. The system of forced labor that was a major cause of the Civil War
  11. 16. The leader of the Underground Railroad
  12. 18. The movement to end slavery in the U.S.
  13. 20. A key figure in the suffrage movement who campaigned for women’s right to vote and helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association