Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. one of the greatest professional boxers of all time
  2. 4. was a black nationalist and the first black president of South Africa
  3. 7. the first African American woman to have her very own television production company
  4. 9. taught himself to read and write at a young age
  5. 11. she set a new American record for most gold medals in gymnastics at a single Olympics Games
  6. 12. known most for escaping from slavery and she spent 11 years guiding other enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad as a “conductor”
  7. 13. Journalist, civil rights activist, mentor to the Little Rock Nine, and speaker at the March on Washington
  8. 14. a Baptist minister and activist who fought against racial inequality
Down
  1. 1. has won three National Basketball Association (NBA) championships and four NBA MVP awards
  2. 3. known most for her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
  3. 5. was an American poet, singer, and civil rights activist with a colorful and troubling past highlighted in her most famous autobiography
  4. 6. the first black woman to compete on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam in 1956
  5. 8. was the first African American professional baseball player in U.S. Major League Baseball
  6. 10. the 44th president of the United States and the very first African American president