Black History Month - US

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Across
  1. 3. First Black President in the US
  2. 4. Mae ________,An engineer and physician who became the first Black woman in space in 1992
  3. 6. Many people, including Black and white people, who worked to end slavery
  4. 8. First African American to play Major League Baseball
  5. 11. The red, _________, and green traffic light that keeps traffic running smoothly today was invented by a Black man from Cleveland, Ohio named Garrett Morgan
Down
  1. 1. First Black woman Vice President in the US
  2. 2. Hattie _______, the first Black person to win an Oscar
  3. 3. Month when the UK celebrates Black History Month
  4. 5. Formed in 1909, it's an American civil rights organization that works to advance justice for African Americans
  5. 7. Harriet ________, A Black abolitionist who helped enslaved people escape to the North through the Underground Railroad
  6. 9. We have these types of banks in America to help doctors and nurses save lives thanks to a Black physician named Charles Richard Drew
  7. 10. On March 7, 1965, a group of demonstrators began a march from ______ to Montgomery in support of voting rights