black history

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Across
  1. 2. rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution and certain Congressional acts.
  2. 3. used by Black people to highlight acts, experiences, and expressions of joy in their lives and the lives of other Black people.
  3. 6. any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans
  4. 7. the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
  5. 10. a renewal and flourishing of Black literary and musical culture during the years after World War I in the Harlem section of New York City.
  6. 11. compensation in money, material, labor, etc., payable by a defeated country to another country or to an individual for loss suffered during or as a result of war:
  7. 15. any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans
  8. 16. Black Americans left the South in massive numbers to relocate to cities and other areas in the North, West, and Midwest.
  9. 18. holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States
  10. 19. any state law discriminating against Black persons.
Down
  1. 1. the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862, that freed the people held as slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union from January 1, 1863, forward.
  2. 4. a conceptual framework that considers the impact of historical laws and social structures on the present-day perpetuation of racial inequality
  3. 5. the act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, or the state of being reconstructed
  4. 6. any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans
  5. 8. the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity.
  6. 9. “great disaster” or “great tragedy,”
  7. 12. a discriminatory practice by which banks, insurance companies, etc., refuse or limit loans, mortgages, insurance, etc., within specific geographic areas, especially inner-city neighborhoods.
  8. 13. refers to a high level of achievement, success, or ability demonstrated by an individual Black person or by Black people in general.
  9. 14. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery
  10. 17. the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual