Across
- 4. prominent leader in the civil rights movement, assasinated on april 4
- 5. murdered for getting "fresh" with a white woman
- 9. wouldn't give up her seat on the bus, secretary of NAACP
- 11. the leader of the Nation of Islam
- 13. director of freedom summer
- 14. became president after JFK
- 15. gov. of AL during Selma marches
- 17. first black student to attend university of Alabama
- 18. gov. of AR, sends troops to protect little rock nine
- 19. first African American in the MLB
- 20. head of public safety during Project C
Down
- 1. judge that replaces Fred Vinson
- 2. leader of SNCC
- 3. organized march on Washington
- 6. fighter of racism, believed in segregation then changed to believe integration
- 7. lawyer on Brown V. Board, later a supreme court justice
- 8. gov. of MS. refused James Meridith
- 10. first African American to attend university of Mississippi
- 12. calls civil rights a moral issue, and calls for a bill
- 16. leader of CORE, believed in non-violence