Civil Rights Movement Crossword

Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice
Refused to give up their seat to a white passenger
Minister and Civil Rights leader
Name given to the voting campaign in the summer of 1964
Nonviolent protests in which a person sits and refuses to move
Rode in interstate buses into the segregated United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places
Segregation imposed by law
Self-styled revolutionaries for Black Power
Worked for racial equality
A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organizations in protests against its policies
Helped with the advancement of colored people
Non-violent committee also known as "Snick"
Churches link together to inform blacks about Civil Rights Movement
Created in July, 1967 by president Lyndon B. Johnson
State level legal codes of segregation
A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage.
This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal
Where Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I Have A Dream" speach
He was the president that assured the nation that "we shall overcome"
The system of segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
strategic movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional
a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
used a loose interpretation to expand rights for both African-Americans and those accused of crimes.
co-founded the Black Panther Party For Self Defense on October 15, 1966.
Co founded Black Panthers and embraced separatism
He coined the phrase "Black Power".
An advocate of black power and was the figurehead of the Nation of Islam for some time.
American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.