Across
- 3. Philosophy of peaceful protest promoted by MLK
- 4. Protest tactic where people refused to buy goods or services
- 6. JFK program sending American volunteers overseas
- 7. System of laws enforcing racial segregation in the South
- 11. Location of MLK’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech
- 12. Federal health insurance for seniors
- 15. Civil rights group that organized Freedom Rides
- 16. Unfair voting requirement used to block African American voters
- 18. The killing of President Kennedy in 1963
- 24. Peacefully refusing to obey unjust laws
- 25. 1965 law protecting African American voting rights
- 26. Early childhood education program created under LBJ
- 27. Term JFK used instead of blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis
- 28. Johnson’s initiative to reduce economic inequality
Down
- 1. 1962 Cold War confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union
- 2. Johnson’s vision to eliminate poverty and racial injustice
- 5. Interstate bus protests challenging segregation
- 8. 1964 law ending segregation in public places
- 9. Belief that if one country fell to communism others would follow
- 10. Voting rights marches that led to federal legislation
- 13. The act of ending separation of races
- 14. Nixon and Kennedy faced off in these first-ever events
- 17. 1963 protests that led to national attention on segregation
- 19. Competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union for space dominance
- 20. JFK’s domestic reform agenda
- 21. Organization led by Martin Luther King Jr.
- 22. Federal health insurance for low-income individuals
- 23. Student-led civil rights organization formed in 1960