| 100% | SHALL | 5 | "We ___ Overcome" (civil rights movement anthem) |
| 66% | BLM | 3 | Civil rights movement initialism |
| 62% | ROSA | 4 | Parks of the civil rights movement |
| 62% | EVERS | 5 | Medgar of the civil rights movement |
| 61% | SELMA | 5 | Landmark city in the civil rights movement |
| 60% | MLK | 3 | Leader in the civil rights movement, in brief |
| 60% | IAM | 3 | "___ a man!" (declaration of the civil rights movement) |
| 59% | ODETTA | 6 | Singer called "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" |
| 58% | MARTIN | 6 | ___ Luther King, Jr., American activist of the Civil Rights Movement |
| 57% | ODETTA | 6 | Folk singer known as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" |
| 57% | HISTORYLESSON | 13 | Lecture that teaches students about the civil rights movements, e.g. |
| 56% | EVERS | 5 | Civil rights leader portrayed in "For Us, The Living" |
| 56% | LEWIS | 5 | Civil rights activist John who became a US congressman |
| 56% | ODETTA | 6 | One-named singer known as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" |
| 55% | ODETTA | 6 | One-named folk singer known as the "Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" |
| 52% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the civil rights leader who has a US holiday |
| 51% | CHICANO | 7 | __ Movement, 1960s Mexican civil rights movement |
| 51% | GONNACOME | 9 | "A Change is ___," 1964 song by Sam Cooke about peace and the Civil Rights Movement: 2 wds. |
| 51% | RUBY | 4 | Civil Rights icon Bridges in Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We All Live With" |
| 50% | MLK | 3 | The initials of one of the most famous Civil Rights Movement leaders of all time in America: Abbr. |
| 50% | PEOPLEGETREADY | 14 | 1965 hit that was the unofficial anthem of the civil rights movement: 3 wds. |
| 49% | NOBELPEACEPRIZE | 15 | Accepting this award, King spoke of "the known pilots and the unknown ground crew" of the civil rights movement |
| 47% | JESSEJACKSON | 12 | US civil rights activist who mounted Democratic presidential nomination campaigns in 1984 and 1988 |
| 46% | DOUBLEV | 7 | W.W. II-era campaign that helped usher in the civil rights movement … and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | DOB | 3 | First lesbian civil and political rights org. in the US, formed in 1955 (abbr.) |
| 45% | BIAS | 4 | Civil rights concern |
| 45% | NAACP | 5 | Civil rights org. |
| 45% | NAACP | 5 | Civil rights grp. |
| 45% | ACLU | 4 | Civil rights gp. |
| 45% | ACLU | 4 | Civil rights org. |