| ROSAPARKS | American civil rights activist (4,5) |
| LUTHER | Martin ___ King, African-American civil rights activist (6) |
| PROSAIC | Film about American civil rights activist is mundane (7) |
| ROYWILKINS | American civil rights activist awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon B Johnson in 1967 |
| ROSA | _ Parks, African American civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger (4) |
| PARKS | African American civil rights activist known for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott (4,5) |
| MALCOLM | - X, American civil rights leader |
| NAACP | African American civil rights org. |
| MLK | American civil rights icon: Abbr. |
| MALCOLMX | American civil rights leader, assassinated in 1965 (7,1) |
| SELMA | Alabama city central to the American Civil Rights movement |
| DAVIDOYELOWO | British-Nigerian actor who played American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., in "Selma": 2 wds. |
| KING | Leader of the American civil rights movement until his assassination in 1968 |
| WESHALLOVERCOME | Song associated with the American civil rights movement (2,5,8) |
| BAYARD | Key figure of the American civil rights movement and a close advisor to Martin Luther King Jr (5,6) |
| RUSTIN | Key figure of the American civil rights movement and a close advisor to Martin Luther King Jr (5,6) |
| OVERCOME | We Shall ___, traditional song associated with the American civil rights movement (8) |
| ROSE | And 32 Down African American civil rights activist known for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott (4,5) |
| JULIANBOND | Leader in the American civil rights movement |
| ACRONYM | Shortened name of old city adopted by American civil rights movement's leaders (7) |
