The Civil Rights Movement

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Across
  1. 2. On Washington where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech
  2. 4. Campaign against segregation in Alabama
  3. 6. Ins at segregated lunch counters
  4. 7. Rock Nine, students who integrated Central High School
  5. 8. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  6. 9. Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by King
  7. 13. Evers, NAACP leader assassinated in Mississippi
  8. 14. Bus Boycott protesting segregated buses
  9. 16. Lou Hamer, activist who fought for voting rights
  10. 17. Till, teenager whose murder galvanized the movement
  11. 18. activist who refused to give up her bus seat
Down
  1. 1. Meredith, first African American student at the University of Mississippi
  2. 3. Rights Act of 1964 banning discrimination based on race
  3. 5. activist who advocated for black empowerment
  4. 6. To Montgomery marches for voting rights
  5. 10. Luther King Jr., prominent civil rights leader
  6. 11. Rights Act of 1965 prohibiting racial discrimination in voting
  7. 12. V Board of Education, Supreme Court case desegregating schools
  8. 15. Congress of Racial Equality, civil rights organization
  9. 16. Riders who challenged segregated bus terminals