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  1. 2. Black History Month is in this month
  2. 6. This color represents growth in black history month
  3. 7. The first black woman to be an EGOT recipient (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)
  4. 8. Refused to give her up her seat on the bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  5. 11. First African American to play in Major League Baseball
  6. 13. The first black president of the US
  7. 14. The month for black history month was chosen based on Frederick Douglas’s and Abraham ____’s birthday
  8. 15. The civil rights leader who gave the famous speech “I Have a Dream”
Down
  1. 1. Widely considered the “Father of Black History Month”
  2. 3. This color represents prosperity in black history month
  3. 4. _____ Tubman helped people escape slavery through the underground railroad
  4. 5. To separate different kinds of people based on something about them
  5. 9. This color represents blood in black history month
  6. 10. The first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, considered the Queen of Soul
  7. 11. Laws that segregated black people
  8. 12. The _____ proclamation was the official order that Abraham Lincoln issued that freed slaves in the US