Black History Month Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. an American activist known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana during the 20th century.
  2. 3. ________ The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
  3. 6. ________ led by civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates, these nine brave Arkansas teenagers broke through racial barriers to become the first black students to attend Little Rock High School.
  4. 9. ________ profilic anti-lynching journalist and Memphis suffragist
  5. 10. ________ was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
Down
  1. 1. ________ was an American botanist and inventor. He did research into alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes.
  2. 4. ________ civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color."
  3. 5. ________ Amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote.
  4. 7. ________ prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
  5. 8. ________ vs. Board of Education; was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.