Black History Month 2026

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Across
  1. 2. southern city that was the start of a series of marches for voting rights in 1965. The critical civil rights events that took place here were represented in a 2014 movie by the same name.
  2. 6. the first woman to lead a major US military operation – The Combahee Ferry Raid in 1863. While no official rank she served as a scout, spy, nurse and leading to her gaining the knowledge and intel to lead the raid.
  3. 7. first black US President, serving 2 terms from 2008-2016.
  4. 9. president who urged Americans to celebrate Black History Month
  5. 11. the weeklong observance of black history established in 1925
  6. 13. one of largest occupations of African Americans post slavery that lead to the formation of first all Black labor union through the Pullman company, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car ______
  7. 14. first African American justice appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1967
  8. 15. Holiday originating in Texas, celebrating Union troops delivering news of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865, 900 days after it went into effect.
Down
  1. 1. first country to abolish slavery in 1804.
  2. 3. first black EGOT winner (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, & Tony)
  3. 4. who became the first African American women astronaut to travel to space in 1992. Then becoming the first real-life astronaut on Star Trek!
  4. 5. founder of the Black History Month and Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH)
  5. 8. name of the university that Martin Luther King Jr attended at just 15 years old.
  6. 10. first US territory to abolish slavery in 1777.
  7. 12. acronym for higher education institutions created before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African American students