Across
- 3. enduring symbol of the Cold War that was built during Kennedy’s administration
- 5. Great Society program to provide pre-school education for disadvantaged children
- 8. a “domestic” Peace Corps created by Lyndon Johnson
- 11. Johnson program to provide medical care to people 65 or over
- 13. organization created by President Kennedy that sent volunteers to aid developing countries
- 14. Civil rights leader who was assassinated in his front yard
- 15. Broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball
- 16. Johnson program to provide medical care to poor people
- 17. Southern civil rights organization led by Martin Luther King
- 18. Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott with her refusal to give up her seat
- 19. fought to overturn Plessy vs Ferguson through legal challenges
- 21. nickname given to JFK’s administration
- 23. organization aimed at bringing college students into the civil rights movement
- 24. His mother chose an open casket “so everyone could see what they did to my boy”
- 25. ___________________vs Board, case that ended segregation in schools
Down
- 1. outlawed the use of poll taxes and literacy tests
- 2. Police attacked marchers in Selma on the Edmund Pettis bridge
- 4. aimed at desegregating bus stations across the South
- 6. strategy used to desegregate public places such as restaurants
- 7. Voting rights drive in Mississippi during which 3 civil rights workers were murdered
- 9. banned discrimination based on race, creed, color, gender
- 10. MLK gave his “I Have A Dream Speech” here
- 12. the closest the US came to nuclear war during the Kennedy administration
- 20. first American to orbit the earth
- 22. 1st American in space