This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Civil Rights & Social Movements has 20 clues. Answers range from 4 to 20 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
An African American seamstress who would Not give up her seat on a bus to a white person
A baptist minister who helped lead the Civil Rights Movement
The prejudice that members of one race are superior to members of other races
To refuse to buy to a company
Laws that enforced the separation of black and whites
Extremely racist group that believes in supremacy of white people over others
The amendment that ended slavery
The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor
In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
A legal way to keep African Americans from voting in southern states
African-American revolutionary organization established to promote Black Power, and by extension self-defense (using arms) for blacks.
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization founded on February 12, 1909, that works to obtain equal rights for all Americans
1955 a 14 year old black boy said "Bye, Baby" to a white woman in Mississippi. In response, he was brutally murdered
A 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
Nonviolent protests in which a person sits and refuses to leave
The name of Martin Luther King JR's popular speech dealing with unequal black treatment
What former member of the Nation of Islam was assassinated during his speech?
What the people were fighting for
The name for black and white separation