Civil Rights Movement Word Search

Find leaders, landmark campaigns, key laws, and places from the struggle for civil rights in the United States.

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About the Civil Rights Movement Word Search

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.

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  • Activism
  • Alabama
  • Albany
  • Atlanta
  • Bayard Rustin
  • Birmingham
  • Boycott
  • Brown v Board
  • Civil Rights Act
  • CORE
  • Daisy Bates
  • Desegregation
  • Discrimination
  • Dr King
  • Ella Baker
  • Emmett Till
  • Equality
  • Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Freedom Riders
  • Freedom School
  • Freedom Summer
  • Integration
  • Jim Crow
  • Justice
  • Liberty
  • Literacy Test
  • Little Rock
  • Lunch Counter
  • March
  • Medgar Evers
  • Memphis
  • Montgomery
  • NAACP
  • Nonviolence
  • Poll Tax
  • Protest
  • SCLC
  • Segregation
  • Selma
  • Sit-In
  • SNCC
  • Voter
  • Voting Rights Act
  • Washington

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