Across
- 3. city where MLK wrote his famous prion letter
- 4. was denied acceptance at a university as a result of affirmative action
- 6. black boy who was killed after flirting with a white cashier
- 8. upheld segregation laws under the doctrine of separate but equal
- 9. deliberately violating a law and willing to accept the consequences
- 11. Martin Luther King's most famous speech
- 12. established programs to admit/hire more minorities
- 17. nickname for the city of Birmingham during the civil rights era
- 18. year that segregation of public places became illegal
- 19. lawyer who represented Brown in Brown v. Board of Education
- 22. tested the strength Supreme Court decision to desegregate buses
- 23. refused to give up her seat on the bus
- 25. called for assertive and violent measures of protest
- 28. group that believed nothing would change without violence
- 29. managed to overturn segregation laws in many cities with peaceful protests
- 30. made segregation legal
Down
- 1. type of protesting MLK advocated for
- 2. city in Arkansas where 9 black students made history
- 4. marched from Selma to Mississippi
- 5. hate group who committed violent acts against blacks
- 7. 4 little girls died as a result
- 10. project designed to register black voters in Mississippi
- 13. fought for the rights of African-Americans
- 14. year that voting barriers became illegal
- 15. amendment that outlawed poll taxes
- 16. this group began the mass movement for civil rights
- 20. man who assassinated MLK
- 21. separation of races
- 24. amendment that granted ex-slaves citizenship
- 26. most famous leader of the Civil Rights Movement
- 27. city famous for holding sit-ins at Woolworth's