This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Civil Rights & Social Movements has 20 clues. Answers range from 5 to 21 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
The Supreme Court ordered the integration of public schools.
The association that took legal approach and brought cases to the courts that challenged the practices of discrimination.
The senator of 1895 who wanted a new state constitution to replace the Reconstruction constitution of 1868.
A court case that required that the school district at least pay for the gas and repairs the used bus that the families had brought to take their children to school.
In 1968, students protested the segregation of a bowling alley in Orangeburg.
The Amendment that abolished slavery.
The Amendment that granted citizenship and "equal protection" before the law and "due process" of the law.
The Amendment that protects the rights of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders.
Students in Rock Hill, SC that was arrested at a sit-in.
was one of the ways that officials resisted efforts to integrate schools.
The act that prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities and made employment discrimination illegal.
Supreme Court ruled white primary was unconstitutional.
1st of 5 cases that led to the brown ruling - ruled SC had to make schools equal.
The constitution that states that African men were allowed to vote and hold office.
This Massacre happened in Aiken County. 6 black militia members were killed by a white mob.
Another name for white Democrats.
The clause that protected poor farmers or/and illiterate white voters.
The constitution that stated that made separate schools for black and white children it also made the Jim Crow laws.
Laws that restricted voting through poll taxes and literacy tests, and continued to limit social, political, and economic opportunities of African Americans.
Was in the first graduating class of the new law school at South Carolina State.