Black History Month - US
Across
- 3. First Black President in the US
- 4. Mae ________,An engineer and physician who became the first Black woman in space in 1992
- 6. Many people, including Black and white people, who worked to end slavery
- 8. First African American to play Major League Baseball
- 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. First Black woman Vice President in the US
- 2. Hattie _______, the first Black person to win an Oscar
- 3. Month when the UK celebrates Black History Month
- 5. Formed in 1909, it's an American civil rights organization that works to advance justice for African Americans
- 7. Harriet ________, A Black abolitionist who helped enslaved people escape to the North through the Underground Railroad
- 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
- 10. On March 7, 1965, a group of demonstrators began a march from ______ to Montgomery in support of voting rights