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Across
  1. 2. institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving African Americans.
  2. 5. an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964.
  3. 6. a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans.
  4. 7. a sudden, radical, or complete change.
  5. 8. the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.
  6. 11. equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other personal characteristics.
  7. 13. a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
  8. 14. laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation.
Down
  1. 1. an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14
  2. 3. the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
  3. 4. African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California
  4. 9. an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire
  5. 10. National Pan-Hellenic Council
  6. 12. the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.