Across
- 2. religious organization helped lead events and pass civil rights act and voting rights act
- 4. amendment that granted African American men the right to vote
- 7. 9 black students had to be escorted into a newly integrated school due to state and community backlash
- 8. made to investigate the causes of widespread racial unrest in America, particularly riots in Detroit and Newark
- 10. Over 100,000 people showed up to peaceful protest at this march where MLK gave his famous speech
- 11. laws that mandated racial segregation in all public spaces
- 13. a case that decided segregation was okay as long as facilities were separate but equal
- 16. African American protesters rode city buses to challenge segregation laws on buses
- 17. organization that wanted to bring equality to everyone, organized the freedom rides and other nonviolent protests
- 19. Campaign created by MLK to turn to economic injustice in America
- 20. campaign initiated in 1942, sought to address systemic racism and segregation
- 21. segregation in schools overruled by the supreme court in this case
- 22. A 14 year old boy was lynched and tortured, his mom held a public funeral to show the horrible treatment of African Americans
- 23. organization helped outlaw segregation in schools and wanted to get rid of legal segregation
- 24. organized protest for the need for voting rights, protesters were brutally attacked by white police
- 25. Rosa Parks is arrested, community responds by boycotting buses in protest.
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- 1. amendment that states neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime
- 3. Youth-lead nonviolent organization focused on civil rights and ending segregation
- 5. organization that protected black citizens from brutality, meant to serve the needs of the oppressed
- 6. organization meant to defend all rights of people nationwide
- 9. banned literacy tests, removed race-based restrictions on voting
- 12. A movement to support African Americans in using their economic and political muscle to gain equality.
- 14. passed in 1964, prohibited governments from imposing toll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election
- 15. religious organization (Malcolm X) encouraged followers to drop slave names and embrace their black heritage
- 16. extended liberties and rights granted by the bill of rights to formerly enslaved people
- 18. An African american in charge of Nation of Islam, took X as his last name to show how slaves identities were stolen