Amazing African Americans Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. This person refused to give up her seat on the bus before Rosa Parks did and challenged the law.
  2. 6. Claudette Colvin wasn't chosen as the ____ of the movemtent because they didn't think teenagers were reliable enough and Rosa Parks had the right look.
  3. 7. Despite the challenges facing them and the discrimination that came up wherever they walked, many African-Americans still were able to ____ above this and follow what they believed in.
  4. 9. Jesse Owens still had trouble getting this even after he got a gold medal in the Olympics.
  5. 10. An influential leader of the Civil Rights Movement who refused to give up her seat on the bus and stood up for people's rights.
  6. 11. A leader who ran away from the Summer Olympics when he found out that Jesse Owens won.
Down
  1. 1. An African-American Woman who worked for NASA and helped send the first man to the moon.
  2. 2. A famous baseball player who broke the color barrier and became the first African-American on a Major League team.
  3. 3. This track star raced in the Summer Olympics of 1936 in Berlin and still faced a lot of barriers and discrimination following this.
  4. 5. Many influential African-Americans proved that they weren't ________ to white people
  5. 8. Many African Americans had to face ___________ in their daily life.