Across
- 3. the first to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person
- 5. president of the Women's Political council in 1950
- 6. helped create the National Women's Political Caucus with feminists Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan
- 7. named 'Inspirational Mother of a Martyr'
- 10. chairperson of the Nonviolent Coordination Comitee in 1960
- 11. helped found the SNCC while learning at Morehouse College
- 13. mentor of Martin Luther King Jr, and worked with him as a proofreader, ghostwriter, phisolophy teacher and non-violence activist.
- 14. died four years before the civil rights movement
Down
- 1. was arrested in 1940 for violating the bus' segregation laws fifteen years before Rosa Parks; NOT the first
- 2. was arrested multiple times in his youth, participating in a sit-in protest in 1961
- 4. founded a trade school for black high school/junior college students in 1909
- 8. Martin Luther King's Right hand Woman
- 9. joined the Negro's Cooperative League and quickly became its director of branches
- 12. voting/women's rights activist, abolished racially-biased voting in the South