The Civil Rights Movement Review Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. This civil rights leader led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and later won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
  2. 4. This national organization was founded in 1909 for racial equality
  3. 5. The ______ v Board of Education case declared segregated schools unconstitutional
  4. 8. Nine African American students enrolled in a white high school in this town in Arkansas after desegregation
  5. 11. This African American civil rights activist was a member of the Nation of Islam before breaking from it
  6. 13. Martin Luther King, Jr gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on __________
  7. 14. Term for the keeping of races or ethnic groups apart
  8. 17. This scandal forced President Nixon to resign
  9. 18. This farm worker and civil rights activist founded the United Farm Workers
  10. 19. The _____ ______ Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices
  11. 20. This civil rights lawyer was the first African American justice on the Supreme Court
  12. 21. This 14 year old African American boy was violently killed in Mississippi just for talking to a white woman
Down
  1. 1. This President made a "war on poverty" part of his Great Society agenda
  2. 3. She became the first female Supreme Court justice in 1981
  3. 6. Leaders of this student group led sit-ins in Greensboro and the Selma to Montgomery March
  4. 7. The _______ _______ Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination
  5. 9. This President called for civil rights legislation before his assassination in 1963
  6. 10. The practice of discriminating against and segregating African Americans in the South
  7. 12. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the Black ________ to fight for equality.
  8. 15. This SNCC leader popularized the term "Black Power"
  9. 16. She began the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to move her seat