Selma/Montgomery March

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Across
  1. 8. a network of white citizens that were against segregation in schools
  2. 12. a letter that MLK wrote to the priest from prison
  3. 13. an american leader and civil rights activist and key inspiration for the MLK's I have a dream speech
  4. 14. a bunch of civil rights activists would go on segregated buses to go to New Orleans
  5. 15. a case that would get rid of segregation in schools
  6. 16. a protest on transportation on segregation
  7. 17. the amount of days the protest lasted in Selma
  8. 18. a phrase to describe segregation in law
  9. 19. a civil rights activist who was a leader in the Selma Civil Rights Movement
  10. 20. founder of the SCLC
  11. 21. a mentor and close friend of MLK
  12. 24. a commissioner of public safety who was against the civil rights movement
  13. 25. an african-american civil rights organziation that involved MLK
  14. 26. a member of SNCC
  15. 27. a man that directed SCLC's Selma voting rights
Down
  1. 1. a movement that would try to abolish racial segregation
  2. 2. a civil rights activist who would teach classes
  3. 3. a form of direct action where a person would sit a lunch counter as a sign of protest
  4. 4. a landmark that end the civil rights movement
  5. 5. a law that passed that ended segregation and the civil rights movement
  6. 6. a student group that fights for civil rights
  7. 7. American civil rights activist who was leader of the student wing in the civil rights movement
  8. 9. an african-american organization that would play a role for African Americans in the civil rights movement
  9. 10. name of the bridge that the African-Americans would cross from Selma to Montgomery
  10. 11. when poor people work for no money
  11. 18. a young boy that died crossing the bridge, shot in the stomach
  12. 20. a man that trying to stop non-violence alongside MLK
  13. 22. president of the United States after the Kennedy Assassination
  14. 23. capital of Alabama (racist city)
  15. 24. a region of Alabama which was segregated