This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Civil Rights & Social Movements has 15 clues. Answers range from 4 to 16 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
The leader of nonviolent/peaceful protest
An African American women who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus
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"
The first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States
Non violent protest where you sit and refuse to leave
Name given to the voting campaign in the summer of 1964 that helped African Americans register to vote
A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies
Freedom Riders rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places
A 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
State level legal codes of segregation
A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage
Churches joining together to inform African Americans about changes in the Civil Rights Movement
An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
He greatly influenced people to believe in black power and self-defense as opposed to King's peace
A secret organization that aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks