Black History Month Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. Civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama
  2. 5. The first African American woman to travel to space
  3. 7. The First African American President of the U.S.
  4. 9. The African American poet and activist who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  5. 12. The first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968
Down
  1. 1. The holiday that celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. on June 19th
  2. 2. The famous speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963
  3. 4. A music genre that originated in African American communities in the 1920s, known for artists like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
  4. 6. African American Olympic sprinter who won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
  5. 8. The network of secret routes and safe houses that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
  6. 10. The historic African American neighborhood in New York City that was the center of a cultural renaissance in the 1920s.
  7. 11. The organization founded in 1909