Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. Used to play basketball, started a shoe company, and is now an actor in several famous movies
  2. 4. She helped Fredrick Douglass escape slavery and married him.
  3. 6. Lead the fight against South Africa's racist apartheid system, enduring 27 years in prison.
  4. 7. She sat in an area where only white people were supposed to sit on a bus and refused to move
  5. 12. She dedicated her life to the abolition of slavery
  6. 13. He was famous for revolutionizing Southern agriculture by promoting crop rotation to restore soil nutrients
  7. 14. After escaping slavery, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York
Down
  1. 1. His very last boxing match he ever did was with Jake Paul
  2. 3. He had a dream
  3. 5. Was president from 2009 to 2017
  4. 8. Is a famous singer who's sung, Earfquake, Are We Still Friends, and Sticky
  5. 9. A famous singer who sings primarily alternative R&B, one of their top songs is called ‘snooze’
  6. 10. Aged 14 and thought to be the first black barrel racing champion
  7. 11. A famous singer, he used lightning creams to ‘become’ white, but the primary reason his skin lost its pigment was due to vitiligo