Black History Month Crossword

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  1. 3. Month when Black History Month is observed
  2. 7. First Black woman to serve as a U.S.us supreme court justice
  3. 9. African American Marxist–Leninist and Black power political and militant organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton
  4. 10. Civil rights protest during which Black Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating
  5. 11. First woman and first African American woman to hold rank of 4- star aAdmiral
  6. 12. Early supporter of gun rights for Black people defending against Ku Klux Klan (KKK) violence
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  1. 1. Pan-Africanist sociologist who developed the theory of “double consciousness”
  2. 2. Holiday that is celebrated annually on June 19, to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States
  3. 4. First Black U.S. president
  4. 5. Prominent critic of sexism in the Ccivil Rights Movement and prominent adviseor to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  5. 6. American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who gave his famous “I have a dream” speech
  6. 8. African American revolutionary and Black nationalist leader