Black History Crossword

3. 13-month mass protest that ended with the US Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
5. Sorority founded in 1908 at Howard University to encourage its members to aspire to the highest levels of scholastic achievement, service, and friendship.
8. 44th President of the United States of America
9. American minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
11. Father of Black History (middle initial included)
12. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar
14. Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where in the early 20th century African Americans had created a self-sufficient prosperous business district.
15. College Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, is the oldest private historically Black liberal arts institution for women.

1. Inventor credited for developing America's first fully functioning clock
2. Founded in 1906 at Cornell University in New York, it is the first black intercollegiate Greek fraternity in the nation
3. Event was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African American
4. Last name of American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
6. 1st Black American appointed to United States Supreme Court
7. Known as the “Moses of her people,” she was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad
10. Founder of Tuskegee University (First name and Middle Initial)
11. He was the first Black secretary of state.
13. First name of the first Black athlete to play in modern Major League baseball