Cold War Project Crossword

This was the practice of favoring individuals that are in groups that have been discriminated against.
This act expanded from other acts but this act prohibited discrimination concerning buying,renting house by race, religion, sex, and or color.
A group that was appointed by president johnson to study the causes of urban violence and to eliminate the “de facto segregation” in american society.
A militant african-american political organization formed in 1966 to fight police brutality and provide services in the ghetto
racial separation established by law
racial separation established by practice and custom, not by law
A law that made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level.
The daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers
A 1964 project to register African-American voters in Mississippi
prohibits discrimiation because of race religion, national origin, and gender.
won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi.
Freedom riders were civil rights activists who challenged racial laws in the south, they rode interstate buses into the segregated south to protest segregated bus terminals.
The sit in movement was a wave of protest that involved more people occupying a place for protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. These group of people would gather in a space or building, refusing to leave unless their demands were met.