This printable crossword puzzle has 17 clues. Answers range from 4 to 20 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
segregation that is imposed by law
segregation by unwritten custom or tradition
organized protests against segregation in northern cities
The NAACP's challenge to segregated public education at all grade levels.
Head of the legal team that mounted the Brown v Board challenge.
Wrote the Brown decision
A school board planning to desegregate its schools.
African American woman who was arrested for refusing to offer up her seat on the bus for a white man.
A day on which the black community of Montgomery refused to use the bus.
African Americans staying at establishments that refused to serve them until closing time.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
African Americans riding interstate buses to challenge the federal law that had recently been passed making segregation illegal on this form of transportation.
An air force veteran that sought to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi
strongly opposed activities of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
The most segregated city in the South.
an act that banned segregation in public accommodations.
An event where one thousand volunteers flooded Mississippi, registering African Americans to vote.