Civil Rights Crossword

State and local laws that legalized racial segregation
Practice of killing people through mob action
1000s of Blacks migrate from southern states to Kansas
Founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Supreme Court decision that said racial segregation is constitutional __________ v Ferguson
Founder of the Niagara Movement
The country's most influential African-American civil rights organization
Founded the UNIA and ACL
Blacks move north in order to escape Jim Crow Laws & gain more economic/social opportunities
Famous night club that operated during Prohibition
___________ Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that fostered a new Black cultural identity
9 black youths are indicted on charges of having raped 2 white women
The first black military pilots in the U.S. armed forces
Separation of Whites and Blacks
Broke MLB's color barrier when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers
________ v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas - Supreme Court unanimously declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional
14 year old who was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman
Refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger
Financially crippled the Montgomery public transit system
Nonviolent methods to disobey laws
American clergyman, activist, & prominent leader of the civil rights movement
9 black students attend an all white school after federal judge orders desegregation of schools
4 black students begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter
First African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South
Student volunteers take bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation
Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety uses fire hoses & police dogs on black demonstrators
NAACP field secretary murdered outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi
This act passes in 1964 prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin
Abolished the poll tax
Black Muslim minister, public speaker, & human rights activist
Campaign to register as many black voters as possible in Mississippi that led to the lynching of 3 civil rights workers
Blacks march from Selma to Montgomery, AL in support of voting rights but are brutally attacked by police
Eliminated literacy tests & poll taxes used to restrict black voting
Reaction to police brutality and job & housing discrimination Blacks faced in LA
Stokely Carmichael, a leader SNCC, coins this phrase
Founded in Oakland this organization called for the protection of black neighborhoods from police brutality