Rep Your City: Civil Rights Edition

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Across
  1. 2. When city sanitation workers decided to strike in response to deplorable job conditions, they marched down __ Street.
  2. 6. Interracial groups of bus passengers organized by the Congress of Racial Equality a.k.a. ___, travel from Washington, D.C. through the South.
  3. 10. One of the original “five and dime” stores, F.W. ___ became the site of some of the first lunch counter sit-ins during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in Nashville.
  4. 11. Dr. Martin Luther King and Ralph David Abernathy worked together to create the ___ Improvement Association.
  5. 12. John Philip Sousa Junior High School, a public middle school in Washington, D.C. was the site of an attempt at school ___.
  6. 14. A violent assault in which state troopers, local policemen and others attack nonviolent protesters with clubs, whips, and tear gas in front of the media.
Down
  1. 1. Birmingham governer, George Wallace, calls for "___ forever."
  2. 3. On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by a sniper at the ___ Motel.
  3. 4. The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church killed ___ African American girls.
  4. 5. Black Panther Party Leader in Chicago.
  5. 7. She is arrested after refusing to give up her seat to whites on a public bus.
  6. 8. One of the most successful black business communities in the country during the civil rights movement.
  7. 9. The Chicago Freedom Movement was one of the major forces that led to the passage of the federal Fair ___ Act in 1968.
  8. 13. ___ Baptist Church was the site of Dr. King’s baptism and ordination.