Black heroes
Across
- 5. This black person refused to leave their seat in a cinema after a white person wanted to sit down on her seat.
- 6. poet who fought for the rights of black people
- 8. He was the president of South Africa who helped to make white and black people equal.
- 10. some say he was the best boxer
- 12. a baseball player in the 1900s who broke the colour line in baseball
- 13. first black woman to win a case against a white man
- 14. A popular basketball player in the LA Lakers
- 15. a person who helped fight for equality
Down
- 1. first black female in congress
- 2. some say he is the best basketball player
- 3. Refused to give her seat to a white man on a bus
- 4. first female vice president
- 7. Fastest 100 and 200 metre sprint
- 9. male activist who wrote 'I have a dream'
- 11. this person was an abolitionist who went on 13 missions and rescued about 70 people from slavery.