brooke yamamoto chapter 14 Crossword

legal separation of groups in society
Racial segregation
The Congress of Racial Equality- is an African-American civil rights organization
A case regarding school desegregation, decided by the Supreme Court in 1954.
first African american justice in United States from October 1967 until October 1991.
he played a role in the forced removal and internment of over 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
A black seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, who, in 1955, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do.
political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court
a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran
He strongly opposed activities of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
established on June 1, 1871, as the anticipated intersection of the North & South and Alabama & Chattanooga railroads
is a landmark civil rights and U.S. labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.
prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement
a movement in support of rights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality
fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968 by james earl ray
November 22, 1963, Dallas, TX- riding a motorcycle