Black History Month: Civil Rights

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Across
  1. 6. second largest Black(Afro) population in South America
  2. 7. this country colonized the majority of South America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean
  3. 8. a month set aside to honor the contributions of Black people to the world
  4. 10. the capturing, selling, and buying of enslaved persons
  5. 12. mass dispersion of peoples from Africa during the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  6. 13. the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies
Down
  1. 1. system to classify all of the Americas' various races and racial combinations
  2. 2. Persons of the first generation of a Spanish and Black/African ancestry
  3. 3. guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law, regardless of race, religion
  4. 4. action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
  5. 5. first free Black town in the Americas
  6. 9. Colombia's first Black female vice president
  7. 11. refers to people from Latin American countries with African ancestry