Black History Month Assignment
Across
- 3. Person who refused to give her bus seat up to a white man.
- 4. first African American to play in the NHL.
- 8. Hecivil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S.
- 10. She led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
- 12. She was an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights.
- 14. The person who has the most home runs ever, even though he cheated.
- 16. The person who abolished slavery
- 18. The month black history month is in
- 19. first African American to play in the NFL.
- 20. she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination.
- 21. escaped slavery and helped others escape
- 22. she calculated trajectories that led the Apollo 11 to the moon.
Down
- 1. he cultivated the spread of vocational schools and colleges for African Americans across the South.
- 2. first African American to play in the NBA.
- 5. He was the first Black commander of an integrated fighter wing.
- 6. He embarked on an incredible life of “good trouble”: as a Freedom Rider.
- 7. She she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination.
- 9. The person who gave the "I have a dream speech."
- 11. He established an agriculture extension in Alabama and founded an industrial research lab.
- 13. first African American president
- 15. The first African American to play in the MLB.
- 17. he fought his whole life to abolish slavery