CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Crossword

the refusal to comply with certain laws as peaceful form of protest
american feminist organization founded in 1966 that fight for equality for women
political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress
signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers such as poll taxes and literacy tests at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote
a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color"
in 1955, a black seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do and her actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
occupying a place as a form of protest, the sit in movement began at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC
a protest against the policy of racial segregation on buses of Montgomery, Alabama by African Americans, they refused to ride the buses until they were desegregated
a 14-year-old African-American who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store, his death helped spark the Civil Rights Movement
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 to challenge the Brown vs. the Board decision to see if it integrated school would be upheld, after several weeks the National Guard ensured their entrance and safety at the school