Across
- 4. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- 5. director of free summer
- 8. Outlaws poll tax
- 10. Governor of Mississippi refused to admit James Meredith to Ole Miss after the Supreme Court order.
- 11. Leader of the nation of Islam
- 12. segregation by custom and tradition
- 14. Segregation by law
- 17. 14 year old from Chicago, murdered by two white men for "getting fresh" with a white women.
- 18. first African American player in the major league of baseball.
- 20. Became the first black student admitted to the University of Alabama in 1956
Down
- 1. Militant political party
- 2. belief in a separate identity and racial unity of the African American community
- 3. First African American to attend the University of Mississippi
- 6. March to raise awareness to the lack of registered voters in the south. Planned to march to Montgomery Alabama.
- 7. A procedure for terminating debate, especially filibusters
- 9. NAACP lawyer that takes up Brown v. Board case.
- 13. Religious group formed by Malcom X
- 15. Protest in which college students simply sit at counters and refuse to leave til served.
- 16. Joined nation of Islam and views eventually changed toward civil rights.
- 19. Congress of Racial Equality
