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Terminology from the Civil Rights Movement
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Jim Crow Laws : Laws supported by Southern state and local governments to separate white Americans and African Americans in public and private facilities.
Soul Force : Martin Luther King, Jr.’s nonviolent resistance adopted from Jesus loving his enemies, Henry David Thoreau being civilly disobedient, Philip Randolph organizing massive demonstrations, and Mohandas Gandhi resisting oppression nonviolently.
SCLC : Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded in 1957 by ministers and civil rights leaders “to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship.”
SNCC : Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a national protest group founded by Ella Barker in April 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina for the college students to risk everything in order for changes in America to occur at a faster pace.
Sit ins : When African-American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served.
Freedom Rider : A civil rights activist who took part in the historic bus ride to the South to eliminate interstate segregated bus rides.
Freedom Summer : In 1964, civil rights groups recruited college students to be trained in nonviolent resistance and register as many African-Americans to become voters as they can in Mississippi.
De Facto Segregation : Segregation existing by practice and custom.
De Jure Segregation : Segregation by law.
Black Power : A phrase by Stokely Carmichael as a “call for [African-Americans] to define their own goals … [and] to lead their own organizations.”
Black Panthers : A political party founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in October 1966 to fight police brutality in the ghetto of Oakland, California.
Affirmative Action : A policy to equalize education and job opportunities for groups who suffered discrimination.
Terminology from the Civil Rights Movement
Across:1. | Laws supported by Southern state and local governments to separate white Americans and African Americans in public and private facilities. | 4. | When African-American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served. | 5. | A political party founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in October 1966 to fight police brutality in the ghetto of Oakland, California. | 7. | Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded in 1957 by ministers and civil rights leaders “to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship.” |
| 8. | A civil rights activist who took part in the historic bus ride to the South to eliminate interstate segregated bus rides. | 9. | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a national protest group founded by Ella Barker in April 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina for the college students to risk everything in order for changes in America to occur at a faster pace. | 10. | Martin Luther King, Jr.’s nonviolent resistance adopted from Jesus loving his enemies, Henry David Thoreau being civilly disobedient, Philip Randolph organizing massive demonstrations, and Mohandas Gandhi resisting oppression nonviolently. |
| | Down:2. | A policy to equalize education and job opportunities for groups who suffered discrimination. | 3. | Segregation by law. | 5. | A phrase by Stokely Carmichael as a “call for [African-Americans] to define their own goals … [and] to lead their own organizations.” |
| 6. | Segregation existing by practice and custom. | 8. | In 1964, civil rights groups recruited college students to be trained in nonviolent resistance and register as many African-Americans to become voters as they can in Mississippi. |
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Terminology from the Civil Rights Movement
Across:1. | Laws supported by Southern state and local governments to separate white Americans and African Americans in public and private facilities. | 4. | When African-American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served. | 5. | A political party founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in October 1966 to fight police brutality in the ghetto of Oakland, California. | 7. | Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded in 1957 by ministers and civil rights leaders “to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship.” |
| 8. | A civil rights activist who took part in the historic bus ride to the South to eliminate interstate segregated bus rides. | 9. | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a national protest group founded by Ella Barker in April 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina for the college students to risk everything in order for changes in America to occur at a faster pace. | 10. | Martin Luther King, Jr.’s nonviolent resistance adopted from Jesus loving his enemies, Henry David Thoreau being civilly disobedient, Philip Randolph organizing massive demonstrations, and Mohandas Gandhi resisting oppression nonviolently. |
| | Down:2. | A policy to equalize education and job opportunities for groups who suffered discrimination. | 3. | Segregation by law. | 5. | A phrase by Stokely Carmichael as a “call for [African-Americans] to define their own goals … [and] to lead their own organizations.” |
| 6. | Segregation existing by practice and custom. | 8. | In 1964, civil rights groups recruited college students to be trained in nonviolent resistance and register as many African-Americans to become voters as they can in Mississippi. |
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