Black Leaders

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Across
  1. 2. considered the mother of the civil rights movement
  2. 6. Seattles first black police women
  3. 8. was the youngest person ever to win a Nobel peace prize
  4. 9. national leader of the abolitionist movement
  5. 12. youngest poet to read at a presidential inauguration
  6. 14. became the first African american Supreme Court Justice
Down
  1. 1. made the underground railroad
  2. 3. affectionately referred to as “Mr. March-on-Washington”
  3. 4. established new local NAACP chapters, organized voter registration drives, and helped lead protests to desegregate public primary schools, parks, and Mississippi Gold Coast beaches.
  4. 5. inspired the civil rights movement
  5. 7. voice of the american civil rights movement
  6. 10. founded, "Genesis for animals"
  7. 11. awarded the presidential medal of freedom
  8. 13. dominated boxing for over two decades