Celebrating Black History

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  1. 5. First African-American child to desegregate an all-white elementary School
  2. 7. He broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947
  3. 10. African American pilots of the 332d Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Force
  4. 12. A network of clandestine routes and safe houses and used by enslaved African Americans to escape into free states and Canada.
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  1. 1. The first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice
  2. 2. A campaign from 1954 to 1968 to abolish institutional racial segregation in the U.S.
  3. 3. An escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad.
  4. 4. American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
  5. 6. Former American Secretary of State and current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
  6. 8. American civil rights activist best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
  7. 9. The process of ending the separation of two groups, usually referring to races.
  8. 11. American Baptist minister and activist. A leader in the civil rights movement.