Civil Rights Movement Crossword Puzzle

About the Civil Rights Movement Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle covers the mid-twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the United States, including protests, organizing groups, landmark laws, and pivotal places. Look for names such as Ella Baker and Medgar Evers, campaigns such as the Freedom Riders, and locations including Selma and Birmingham. It is suited to students and anyone interested in American history and the fight against segregation.

This crossword draws on 39 clues about Civil Rights Movement. 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

• •Campaigning for social change (8 letters)
• •Organizer of the 1963 capital rally (12 letters)
• •Group that organized interstate bus protests (4 letters)
• •Organizer who helped establish SNCC (9 letters)
• •1964 Mississippi voter-registration campaign (13 letters)
• •State of being free (7 letters)
• •Organized public demonstration (5 letters)
• •Civil rights group whose initials name an association for advancing colored people (5 letters)

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