Terms

3. American Civil Rights Organization For Advance Justice For African Americans
8. Pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement where African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride city buses to protest segregated seating
12. Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and '60s
13. Required Voting Fee
16. Pivotal civil rights organization in the 1960s, formed by students to promote nonviolent, direct action protests against segregation and racism, and to achieve political and economic equality for African Americans
17. Separating People Based On Race Or Ethnicity
19. 14-year-old African American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi in 1955, and the subsequent acquittal of his killers, became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement, exposing the brutality of racial violence and galvanizing the fight for equality

1. Racial Separation That Exist But Not A Law
2. Key figure in the American Civil Rights Movement
4. Established "Separate But Equal" Doctrine
5. Form of nonviolent protest where demonstrators occupy a public space, like a segregated lunch counter, and refuse to leave until their demands are met, often to challenge discrimination or segregation
6. Local Laws Legalized Racial Segregation
7. Test For A Person's Ability To Read And Write
9. Legal Separation Of Individuals Based On Race That's A Law
10. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson
11. Pivotal civil rights organization led by Martin Luther King Jr., focused on achieving racial equality through nonviolent protests and civil disobedience
14. Allowed Segregation With Equal Facilities
15. Belief that humans may be divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called “races”
18. Guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics