History test 7 Crossword
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
 
 
Down: 1) The end of the war started a quarter- century of unprecedented economic boom.2) A series of civil rights protests led mostly by students in southern cities. The targets were segregated lunch counters in dime and department stores.3) The 1954 Supreme Court decision declared unconstitutional the separate but equal doctrine in public schools4) In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. Local leaders selected the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. to lead the boycott of the city's bus system.7) Television became a crucial force in the evolution of the American consumer. Across: 5) Little Rock's Central High School was ordered to be desegregated. President Eisenhower ordered federal soldiers to the city to enforce the court order and to protect the black students.6) Most Americans were content with the status quo. Americans were confident about their society and defended it as not needing change.8) The report issued by the committee in 1947 was called to secure these rights. The report created an agenda for the civil rights movement for the next 20 years.9) He desegregated baseball in 1947.10) Baptist minister who became one of t most powerful civil rights leaders. He was committed to the spirit of nonviolent protests as practiced by Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi.11) Joseph McCarthy-U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. He made a series of speeches about the number of Communists in the American government. His actions during a series of Congressional hearings created a atmosphere of fear and mistrust.12) Name given by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith to America during the postwar boom.13) Under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall and his colleagues set out to destroy the separate but equal doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson.14) Issued a series of "friend of the court' legal briefs in support of the civil rights movement, especially in the areas of housing and public accommodations.
 

 

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