Black History Activity

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Across
  1. 2. American-born French dancer and singer
  2. 4. The author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
  3. 7. The first African American and one of the first women to polish a poetry in the colonies
  4. 9. The first black president
  5. 12. A sociologist who was also the most important black protest leader in the 20th century
  6. 14. The first African American to rise to the rank of brigadier general
  7. 15. The 66th United States Secretary of State
  8. 16. He sings "Three O'Clock Blues"
  9. 17. "Dred Scott vs. Stanford"
  10. 19. Invented 300 different ways to use peanuts
  11. 20. "I have a dream"
Down
  1. 1. A woman conductor of the underground railroads
  2. 3. A leader in the Harlem Renaissance, who wrote about "The negro was in vogue"
  3. 5. A African American Muslim activist, who encouraged blacks to protect themselves from whites "by all means necessary"
  4. 6. Established the first black kindergarten
  5. 8. A Jamaican-born activist who organized the first important American Black Nationalist movement
  6. 10. The first African American Secretary of State
  7. 11. The founder of Tuskegee University
  8. 13. A world-renowned writer and anthropologist
  9. 18. Known as "The mother of the Civil Right Movement"