Civil Rights Leaders Crossword Puzzle

About the Civil Rights Leaders Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle features people who organized, spoke, marched, and campaigned for civil rights in the United States and around the world. Its names include Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, and Wangari Maathai. Students and history readers can use it to recall familiar figures and discover leaders from different movements and countries.

This crossword draws on 37 clues about Civil Rights Leaders. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Myanmar democracy advocate and Nobel laureate (13 letters)
• •Quaker activist who organized a landmark 1963 march (6 letters)
• •Arkansas advocate who guided the Little Rock Nine (10 letters)
• •Organizer who helped launch SNCC (9 letters)
• •California politician who championed gay rights (10 letters)
• •Filipino American labor leader who helped start a grape strike (12 letters)
• •Mississippi field secretary assassinated in 1963 (11 letters)
• •NAACP leader who succeeded Walter White (10 letters)

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