Black History Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. 2015 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  2. 4. 1800s network of safe houses for people escaping slavery
  3. 6. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth month
  4. 9. Family Thurgood Marshall represented in their legal fight for equality in education
  5. 10. Protections for people to have safety and equal treatment
  6. 12. An important figure can be described as this
  7. 13. Branch of government Shirley Chisholm was elected to
  8. 14. Conductor of the Underground Railroad
  9. 15. State where the Montgomery Bus Boycott occurred
  10. 16. First African American US President
  11. 17. Her refusal to move from her seat on a segregated bus led to a city-wide boycott
Down
  1. 1. Abolitionist whose autobiographies outlined the importance of ending slavery in the USA
  2. 2. First African American Supreme Court Justice
  3. 5. MLK's famous speech title
  4. 7. Someone who lobbies, protests, and organizes to bring about change
  5. 8. Brown vs. Board of education helped to end this in schools
  6. 11. One of two states where Frederick Douglass lived