Black History Month Final
Across
- 6. Brave, wanted justice, first African American child to go an all white school.
- 8. protest for equal equality
- 9. freedom held by all people
- 13. can be successful regardless of their identity.
- 14. stop using service to create change.
- 17. fought unfair treatment as a civil rights lawyer. Brown vs. Board of education. Supreme Court Justice.
- 18. "I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star". Women justice, known for "Ain't I a women".
- 20. missed, "I have a dream" speech, went to Harvard, believed in equality.
- 21. wrote books, self taught, speaker against slavery, worked with Abraham Lincoln, was 20 when he escaped from slavery.
- 22. Baseball star, American hero, was in the military, treated badly because his skin color.
Down
- 1. "education is the key to freedom", lived in Maryland then Pennsylvania.
- 2. speech for equal rights, "I have a dream", freedom from segregation.
- 3. keep separated due to race/color
- 4. In 1863, he declared all slaves to be free through the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 5. people who spoke against slavery.
- 7. owning people like property.
- 10. help slaves escape, conductors/guides lead the way.
- 11. freedom everyone deserves to have
- 12. refused to give up her seat, went to jail, Bus Boycott.
- 15. free to do anything
- 16. wanted to help other people, was a guide of the underground railroad, Considered the first Moses, helped 300 slaves escape, was 12 when she escaped slavery.
- 19. fought for slaves freedom, used violence instead of words, crazy, portrayed as the second Moses.