Black History Month

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Across
  1. 6. Set in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  2. 7. One of MLK's closest advisors and AIDS education advocate
  3. 9. Used her writing to shine light on her experience as a Black, lesbian woman
  4. 10. Mississippi's Freedom Summer organizer
  5. 11. Activist, teacher, and congressman known for "Good Trouble"
  6. 13. 44th President of the United States
  7. 15. 1st African American woman elected to congress
  8. 17. Known for his, "I Have a Dream" speech
  9. 19. LGBTQ+ activist, known for the stonewall Riots and founding STAR
  10. 21. At 15 years old, refused to give up her seat on a bus
  11. 23. 1st Black child to enter an all white school
  12. 25. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was her 1st autobiography
  13. 26. NASA Mathematician and Computer Scientist
  14. 27. 1st African American woman in history to win Nobel Prize in Literature
  15. 28. Comic book and animated television writer
Down
  1. 1. Known for "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" speech
  2. 2. Most decorated gymnast in history
  3. 3. The "Father of Black History"
  4. 4. 1st African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor
  5. 5. Journalist and suffragist who campaigned for anti-lynching legislation
  6. 8. 1st African American in space
  7. 12. "First Lady of Song" Jazz singer
  8. 14. Choreographer, dancer, and activist
  9. 16. Conductor along the Underground Railroad
  10. 18. Read "The Hill We Climb" at 2021 Presidential Inauguration
  11. 20. 1st African American to play in the MLB
  12. 22. Awarded 6 Tony Awards
  13. 24. 1st American woman to obtain an international pilot's license