Chapter 21 Vocabulary (U.S. History) Crossword
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
 
 
Down: 1) Saying used by Carmichael that encouraged African American pride as well as political and social leadership2) Eliminates literacy test and allows federal officials to enroll people who had been denied by local officials3) Segregation by law4) Appointed by President Johnson to study the causes of urban violence. Comes up with one main cause: White racism. LBJ ignores many of its recommendations because of white opposition6) Leader of SNCC all decide to finish the march7) Program begun by the government in the 1960s to help equalize education and job opportunities8) Prohibits discrimination in housing11) A militant African American political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto12) Air force veteran who wins a federal court cause saying he can go to Ole Miss13) 26 year old Baptist minister elected to lead the movement. (Calls for the Montgomery Bus Boycott)15) Civil Rights leader that urged his followers to take complete control of their communities and livelihoods and culture16) A form of demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination in which the protesters sit down in segregated business and refuse to leave until they are served18) Summer where many people worked to register as many African Americans to vote as possible Across: 5) Supreme Court unanimously struck down segregation in school9) Organization designed to carry out nonviolent protest and demonstrations throughout the south in order to empower ordinary African Americans10) Segregation that exist by practice and custom. Faced by the African Americans in the North14) Voice and face of the Mississippi freedom democrat party17) Women who refused to move to the back of the bus and sparked a famous boycott and becomes the face of the civil rights struggle19) Student led protest group which used sit-ins and other nonviolent protests20) Black Muslims21) Lawyer for the NCAAP and first African American on the Supreme Court22) Person who rode buses through the south to fight segregation23) Prohibits discrimination
 

 

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