Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. first African American president to be elected in 2008
  2. 5. used the Underground Railroad to free around 70 slaves
  3. 7. an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who made a public speech "I Have a Dream"
  4. 9. one of the first scholars to study African-American history and created awareness of black history
  5. 10. was the first colony to ban slavery in 1777
  6. 11. black history month
Down
  1. 1. an American poet and was known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance
  2. 3. created the famous phrase “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see.”
  3. 4. the first female african-american lawyer
  4. 6. first African-American woman and first Native American to have a pilot license
  5. 8. she was honored with the title of "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"