| GIVEUSTHEBALLOT | 1957 Martin Luther King, Jr., speech that called for voting rights for African Americans |
| SUFFRAGETTE | Campaigner for voting rights for women (11) |
| ATLANTADREAM | WNBA team named after a Martin Luther King, Jr. speech |
| IHAVEADREAM | Martin Luther King Jr. speech |
| NGO | Many a promoter of human rights or voting rights, for short |
| ACLU | Organization that advocates for voting rights: Abbr. |
| SENSE | Common -; Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet that called for American independence (5) |
| AUDIT | It was fraud, I think, that called for the examination of the accounts |
| TROTSKYISM | The communist theory that called for immediate worldwide revolution by the proletariat (10) |
| SUFFRAGIST | Very loud newspaper is taking time to support rise of American advocate for voting rights (10) |
| RHUBARB | Leaf-stalks eaten as fruit once with a thriving industry in Yorkshire and demand that called for special overnight delivery to the south via express train (7) |
| SUFFRAGE | America raised females' fury for voting rights (8) |
| EBONY | Magazine whose annual Power 100 has honored influential African Americans |
| KWANZAA | Harvest festival some African-Americans celebrate in late December (7) |
| CAR | Manufacture of this commuter's essential drove many African-Americans to migrate to Detroit |
| AMA | Org. that called chiropractic an "unscientific cult" in the '60s |
| GREAT | *20th-century exodus of African Americans from the South |
| JAZZ | Musical form developed by African Americans |
| SHIRINEBADI | Iranian lawyer and activist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts for democracy and human rights, especially rights for women and children (6,5) |
| SDS | Org. that called '60s strikes |
