Social Movement: Civil Rights 1960s

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Across
  1. 4. This act banned segregation in public accommodations.
  2. 7. Banned literacy tests and other laws that kept people from registering to vote. It also sent federal officials to register votes.
  3. 8. To protest discrimination and to urge Congress to pass a civil rights bill sent by President Kennedy
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  1. 1. Volunteers traveled through southern cities with large black populations in order to help increase African American voter registrations.
  2. 2. King was outside his hotel room in Memphis, TN and shot by James Earl Ray, an escaped convict and white supremacist
  3. 3. radical civil rights group that advocated for faster change and immediate reforms to address poverty and jobs. Did not support non-violence.
  4. 5. A predominately black church and meeting location for civil rights activists was bombed in Birmingham, AL. No one was held responsible for over a decade.
  5. 6. Peaceful demonstrations in Selma and surrounding communities resulted in the arrests and killings including King.