The Early Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s.

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Across
  1. 2. The Civil Rights movement began in the 1950s as a result of WWII and _____.
  2. 3. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King jr was inspired by Mohandas __________ use of civil disobedience in his struggle to obtain Indian independence.
  3. 6. _______ vs Ferguson was an 1896 Supreme Court Ruling that Establishes Separate but equal (segregation)
  4. 7. Little _______ Nine were the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School.
  5. 8. The United States Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools via the ______ vs Board of Education ruling.
  6. 9. The SCLC is an African-American civil rights group made up of Black ______ and churches.
  7. 10. President ___________ integrated the armed forces in 1948.
  8. 11. De _______ segregation is segregation by law, or the Jim Crow laws which existed in the South East U.S.
Down
  1. 1. De ________ segregation is segregation in practice NOT by law, which existed throughout the country.
  2. 2. The spark that ignited the Civil Rights Movement was the brutal murder of Emmett ________.
  3. 4. Civil _________ is the act of respectfully disobeying unjust laws.
  4. 5. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King jr emerged during the Montgomery Bus __________.
  5. 7. After refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white man ________ Parks was arrested.