ABCs of Black History

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  1. 3. an athlete who overcame polio racism and sexism to become the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics
  2. 4. the intellectual social and artistic explosion that occurred in Harlem other northern cities in the 1920s
  3. 10. President Abe Lincoln freed millions of enslaved people when he issued this on January 1, 1863
  4. 11. Act the landmark piece of federal legislation enacted in 1965 to protect voting rights for racial minorities especially in the south
  5. 13. the birthplace of humanity and civilization; the 2nd largest continent in the world
  6. 14. an author, anthropologist and essential figure of the Harlem Renaissance whose work highlighted racial struggles in the south
  7. 15. a journalist and educator who fought against racism lynching and sexism; she was also one of the founders of the NAACP
  8. 18. an activist who refused to give up her seat to a white rider on a segregated bus this helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott
  9. 19. for freedom writers civil rights activists who took bus trips called freedom rides through the South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals
  10. 20. a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of allies
  11. 22. the 1964 law which ended segregation in public place and employment discrimination on the basis of identity
  12. 23. a mathematician at NASA whose calculations were critical to the success of the first US manned space flight
  13. 24. an enslaved West African who was sold to a family in Boston; she would become the first published black female poet
  14. 25. the most prominent figure of the civil rights movement who led peaceful protests against racial & social inequality in America
  15. 26. the first African American president of the US
Down
  1. 1. students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957; the US Army protected them from violence
  2. 2. a lawyer who won several important cases before the Supreme Court before becoming the first black Supreme Court justice
  3. 5. the first black woman elected to Congress and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination
  4. 6. the first african-american to play major league baseball in the modern era; he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
  5. 7. a liberal arts college in Louisianca that is the only historically black Roman Catholic institution in the US
  6. 8. the Greensboro Four the North Carolina ANC freshmen who sat at a whites only lunch counter to protest segregation their action sparked nationwide sit-ins
  7. 9. a media executive, philanthropist actress talk-show host TV producer andNorth America's first black billionaire
  8. 12. the civil rights organization founded in 1909 to ensure the political educational social and economic equality of all people
  9. 16. one of the few black scientists to work on the Manhattan Project a top-secret effort to build the atomic bomb during World War II
  10. 17. the enslaved man who participated in the Lewis & Clark expedition across the western US as an explorer and hunter
  11. 21. an enslaved black man who unsuccessfully appealed to the US Supreme Court for his freedom in 1857