This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Civil Rights & Social Movements has 45 clues. Answers range from 4 to 22 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Name of historical period from 1865 to 1877
President who signed Emancipation Proclamation
What did Emancipation Proclamation do?
President before Barack Obama
First African American to run for Democratic nomination for president
First African American elected to United State Senate
He ran to be the Democratice presidential candidate in 2004
He organized the 1963 March on Washington
Supreme Court ruling that outlawed segregated schools was Brown vs________
The organization that upheld the rights of freed slaves during Reconstruction
Political Party that created Emancipation Proclamation
1964 Republican candidate who voted against the Civil Rights Act
State in which the Little Rock 9 integrated Central HIgh School
This 1865 amendment abolished slavery
This Supreme Court ruling declared that African American could not be citizens
These Southern laws created "separate but equal" status for African Americans
To deny people the right to vote is __________________
The Civil Rights Movement use this tactic to achieve their goals
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded this group
In 1964,Malcolm X spoke at a rally and called for freedom, justice, and equality "by any means ____________"
14 year old boy killed in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman
Only State where people voted to create Martin Luther King Day
First African American elected to United State Senate after Reconstruction
Name of white suprememist groups organized during Reconstruction
The 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed ____________based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin
Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited discrimination in ___________.
African American lady whose refusal to giver up her seat on the bus and started the Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Amrican who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988
Presidential Candidate who started African American switch from Republican to Democratic
African American military pilots and bombers who fought in World War II
African-American mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the moon
San Francisco 49ers player who has refused to stand for the national athem
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi created this group after the murder of Trayvon Martin
Americans who believe that President Obama is not a U. S. citizen
The term used to say that the election of Barack Obama ended racism
Term used to explain privileges that automatically benefit white people
$7.25 per hour
$10.00 per hour
Major causes of African American economic inequality
Per cent of African American unemployed under President Bush
Per Cent of African Americans unemployed in 2015
An executive (by president or governor) order that cancels a conviction of a crime
An executive order (by president or governor) that shortens a sentence
President who has issued the most pardons and commutations
The types of offenses committed by most of the people pardoned by President Obama