BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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Across
  1. 2. Civil rights activist known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
  2. 5. African American baseball player who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball
  3. 7. Celebrated African American poet who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
  4. 8. Supreme Court Justice and first African American woman to serve on the Court
  5. 10. African American singer and "Queen of Soul"
  6. 11. Activist and author of "The Souls of Black Folk"
  7. 13. First African American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature
  8. 15. Landmark Supreme Court case that ended segregation in public schools
Down
  1. 1. Civil rights activist and orator whose birth name was Malcolm Little
  2. 3. African American mathematician and NASA pioneer portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures"
  3. 4. African American author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
  4. 6. First African American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress
  5. 8. Civil rights leader known for his "I Have a Dream" speech
  6. 9. Underground network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom
  7. 12. African American scientist who developed products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans
  8. 14. The first African American President of the United States