Black History Month
Across
- 2. helped enlist free black men to fight in the Union Army
- 3. best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance
- 9. became the first African American to play in the Major League Baseball
- 12. used an "underground railroad" to free slaves
- 13. first black president
- 14. was the most famous female blues signer in the 1930s
- 15. was a professional golfer and entrepreneur
Down
- 1. won eight Grammys for his album "Thriller"
- 4. was the richest African American in the 20th century and was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world
- 5. won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls
- 6. was a principal spokesman of the Nation of Islam during the 1950s
- 7. was a famous boxer, philanthropist, and social activist
- 8. was the NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi
- 10. was the first African American student who went to a white elementary school in 1960
- 11. refused to go to the back of the bus