The Civil Rights Movement - Brandon Maas

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Across
  1. 1. The town in which 4 African-American college students started a boycott of diners by sitting-in at the counter all day
  2. 3. The last name of the civil rights leader who led non-violent protests for African-American rights
  3. 5. The ___________ Act of 1965 illegalized all barriers that made it hard for African-Americans to register to vote
  4. 8. these African-American students were chosen to attend Central HS in Little Rock, Arkansas
  5. 12. Town in Alabama where much of the segregation and racial violence took place; huge target for the Civil Rights Movement to protest peacefully
  6. 14. This person sat in the white section of a bus and started the Montgomery Bus Boycot
  7. 16. 14 year old boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955
  8. 17. The ___________ Amendment outlawed the poll tax on African-Americans
  9. 18. This was integrated in 1948 by President Truman
  10. 22. Where MLK wrote his famous letter after being arrested during a protest
  11. 24. Knowingly and deliberately violating a law that is perceived to be unjust and accepting the consequences for doing such
  12. 25. He was the leader of the Mississippi NAACP who was shot outside his home
  13. 26. The discrimination and separation of major racial or other types of groups
  14. 27. issued decision on the Brown v. Board of Education case
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  1. 2. The 16th Street _____________ Bombings resulted in the death of 4 little girls and an uproar in the Civil Rights Movement
  2. 4. This man’s teachings served as inspiration for the actions of Martin Luther King Jr.
  3. 6. Oldest Civil Rights Organization that fought for the rights of African-Americans
  4. 7. He was a sharp contrast to the actions of MLK; he preferred violent actions to protest the rights of African-Americans
  5. 9. NCAAP lawyer who represented children in Brown v. Board of Education case, first black supreme court justice
  6. 10. The movement where many African-Americans stood up for racial equality
  7. 11. Martin Luther King Jr. was __________ on April 4th, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee
  8. 13. The Mississippi ________________ was the project that gathered college students across the country to go to Mississippi to help African-Americans to register to vote
  9. 15. The _________ Amendment granted ex-slaves citizenship
  10. 19. The ____________ of 1964
  11. 20. Martin Luther King Jr. led a 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery and were attacked by police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge
  12. 21. Civil Rights group founded in 1942 of the University of Chicago campus
  13. 23. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “_______________” Speech was the most famous speech of the Civil Rights Movement; it took place on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after a march on Washington by 200,000 people
  14. 26. This committee managed the sit-ins during the Greensboro Sit-Ins