Black History

2. an American prison activist, writer, and singer
4. one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree.
7. the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
10. best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.Tubman She rescued over 70 slaves
12. March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
14. was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist

1. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community.
3. was an American gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen
5. His first name is Martin
6. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades.
8. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South
9. was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
11. He's known as a former slave who became an abolitionist
13. was the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, and in 1939, she became the first Black female judge.