Black History Month

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Across
  1. 3. the story of African-American women working at NASA
  2. 5. was a celebration of African American heritage through the arts
  3. 6. helped freed many slaves in the Underground Railroad
  4. 7. created many uses for peanuts
  5. 8. the first African-American student to attend an all-white elementary school in the Southern United States
  6. 10. a movement fighting for equal rights
  7. 11. a freed slave who wrote an autobiography about his experience
Down
  1. 1. a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s.
  2. 2. network of people, homes, and hideouts that slaves in the southern United States used to escape to freedom in the Northern United States and Canada.
  3. 4. was the first African American to play professional baseball
  4. 9. a boycott led by students to fight segergation