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2. : the largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama.
3. : Won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi.
6. : An exclusively black Islamic sect proposing a separate black nation, founded in Detroit.
7. : Refused to give up her seat.
8. : Eliminated the literacy tests that had disqualified many voters.
14. : A Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement.
15. : A US civil-rights student organization active in the 1960's.
16. : Protestors sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served.
17. : One of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation.
18. : 26-year-old Pastor of the Dexter Ave. Baptist Church.
19. : This voter registration effort in rural Mississippi was organized by black and white civil rights workers in 1964.

1. : Ended mandatory poll taxes that prevented many African Americans.
4. : American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
5. : Making special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination.
9. : They ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
10. : Carried out nonviolent crusades against the evils of the second-class citizenship.
11. : Prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.
12. : Democratic Party politician and police official from the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement.
13. : African American group who fought police brutality in the ghetto.
20. : Joined the Nation of Islam in 1946 and became a vigorous campaigner for black rights, initially advocating the use of violence.