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Civil Rights Crossword Puzzle

Across
Prejudice or discrimination toward someone because of race.
A procedure where a small group of Senators take turns speaking and refuse to stop the debate to allow a vote on a bill.
A movement in the late 1960s that had many meanings to include an acceptance of violence as necessary and that African Americans should control the social, political, and economic direction of the struggle.
1896 case that was the basis for the "separate but equal" doctrine.
14 year old teen from Chicago who was brutally murdered in 1955.
A commission appointed by President Johnson in 1967 to study the causes of urban riots.
The face of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee by a white supremacist.
Born Malcom Little, he became leader of the Nation of Islam.
Supreme court case settled in 1954 that ended the 'separate but equal' doctrine
This James waas the first African American to apply and register at the University of Mississippi
Student Nonviolent coordinating committee, a civil rights organization that promoted sitins to end segregation and to push protection of voting rights for blacks.
Down
A vote that requires 60 or more of the 100 Senators to stop a fillibuster.
Southern Christian Leadership Council, a civil rights organization that was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Public Safety Commissioner in Birmingham, Alabama that turned police dogs and fire hoses on demonstrators.
1964 law that was the most comprehensive civil rights law Congress had ever enacted.
A 1965 law passed to eliminate state and local efforts to keep blacks from voting by giving the federal government the power to register and supervise voting procedures in the South.
Violent terrorist revolutionary group that promoted violence to end racial oppression
Groups of black and white college students who would travel by bus to end segregation of bus facilities.
Civil rights leader assassinated because of his work to end segregation in schools.
Secretary that was arrested for failing to give up her seat to a white person. Her resistance sparked a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system.
The Alabama city where Dr. King organized a March to the Capitol in Montgomery in 1965.