Chapter 14 Crossword

what was the legal separation of groups in society?
What was racial segregation especially in public schools that happened "by fact" rather tan by legal requirement?
An African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a vital role in the civil rights movement
The supreme court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional
The supreme court's first African-American justice
Helped arrange an unanimous decision in Brown v. Board
The Little Rock Nine was a 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.
a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
demonstrators occupy a place open to the public, such as a racially segregated ( see segregation) lunch counter or bus station, and then refuse to leave.
was one of the major American Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at a May 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University.
a person who challenged racial laws in the American South in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws designating that seating in buses be segregated by race.
a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran
was an American politician who served as an elected Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades. He strongly opposed activities of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
where several significant events in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s took place.
a landmark civil rights and 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 landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
An African-American political leader of the twentieth century. A prominent Black Muslim, Malcolm X explained the group's viewpoint in a book written by Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He was assassinated in 1965.
a movement in support of rights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
for Self-Defense, was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.
an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST.
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician and journalist who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.