history
Across
- 6. Obama, an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
- 7. Baker, an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France.
- 11. T. Washington, an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States.
- 13. Parks, an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
- 15. Hughes, an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
- 16. Neale Hurston, an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker.
- 17. Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
- 18. Wheatley, the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight.
- 19. B. Wells, an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement.
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- 1. Powell, an American politician, diplomat and retired four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005.
- 2. Garvey, a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator.
- 3. Scott, an enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, and their two daughters
- 4. an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
- 5. Rice, an American diplomat, political scientist, civil servant, and professor who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
- 6. an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer.
- 8. Washington Carver, an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
- 9. O. Davis, a United States Air Force general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen. He was the first black Brigadier general in the United States Air Force.
- 10. Luther King Jr., an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
- 12. X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement.
- 14. Tubman, an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions.