Civil Rights Movement Crossword

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The Act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights
Civil Rights Leader, He opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful demonstrations
Political Protest against segregation by Blacks and Whites riding buses together through the south in 1961
A massive rally in Washington to urge the passage of President Kennedy's Civil Rights Bill
Four Students from North Carolina A&T sat at an all-white counter at Woolworth and refused to move until served
This Amendment granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War
State and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights.
Legal separation of people based racial, ethnic, or other differences
The 15-year old girl who had sat in the front of the bus and refused to give up her seat.
Thousands of children gathered together to march downtown to talk to the mayor about segergation.