Christina_Phan_chapter 14 Crossword

Law-imposed segregation
Traditionally performed segregation AKA the way of life involving daily segregation practices without explicit law requiring
Congress of Racial Equality (formed to gain civil rights)
The Kansas segregated public education case that ruled opposing the "separate but equal" doctrine
The African American lawyer that headed the NAACP attorneys in charge of the legality of segregation in court; a Justice on the Supreme Court during 1965-1991
The newly-elected to office Chief Justice during the Brown v Board of Education case
The particular incident in which racial integration in a school was stopped by the National Guard and required federal troops to escort nine African Americans
An African American seamstress arrested for refusing to yield her seat to a white passenger, an act eventually resulting in the Civil Rights Movement
A one day boycott organized by civil rights activists in Montgomery to oppose Park's arrest and segregation in general
The act of protesting for racial equality by "solicitation" on white-only areas
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee established by activists to defeat white racism
The event in 1961 where African Americans sat at the front of the bus in white zones, the consequences being firebombing and mobbing
An Air Force veteran who won a federal court case that ordered the University of Mississippi to desegregate
The Birmingham Public Safety Commissioner who relied on police dogs and fire hoses against protesters
The most segregated city in the South that was target for major civil rights campaigns
The act that banned segregation in public accommodations and granted permission to command state and local school boards to desegregate schools; the act allowed the Justice Department to persecute violators of civil rights and discrimination/inequality
The major campaign in 1964 that focused on the registration for voting for African Americans and the creation of the MFDP, counterpart to the Democratic Party
The 1965 act that banned literacy tests and gave authority for federal government to supervise voting registration and elections in states with extreme discrimination
Ratified in 1964, it banned the poll tax that kept African Americans from voting due to their financial status
The most well-known African American radical; minister of the strict religious sect - Nation of Islam - later forming his own organization that accepted whites
A term first used by the SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael in 1966; a movement in the 1960s that implied that African Americans should collectively use their economic and political strength to gain equality
A symbol of young militant African Americans created in response to the term "black power", the party organized armed patrols that protected against police abuse
The murder committed by James Earl Ray on April 4th after the victim declared "God's Will"
The assassination that occurred during a campaign visit; brother of the late (assassinated) RFK