When in Black History?

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Across
  1. 2. Selma Burke sculpted the original plaque of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which served as the model for Roosevelt’s image on our dime
  2. 4. Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman to run for a major party’s presidential nomination (Democratic party)
  3. 6. The Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
  4. 7. The Black Panthers established the Free Breakfast for School Children Program
  5. 8. Nat Turner leads a valiant, significant slave revolt in Virginia
  6. 10. The last enslaved people received news of their freedom, this was two years after the Emancipation Proclamation
  7. 11. The Supreme Court establishes the "separate but equal" rule in Plessy v. Ferguson
  8. 12. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act outlawing segregation in public places
Down
  1. 1. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or NAACP is founded
  2. 3. Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  3. 4. President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate territory free
  4. 5. Barack Obama is elected the first African American President of the United States
  5. 6. The Voting Rights Act is signed prohibiting racial discrimination in voting
  6. 8. The 13th Amendment is passed which abolished slavery in the United States
  7. 9. The first 20 enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, Virginia, marking the beginning of slavery in the English colonies of the United States
  8. 10. Dr. Martin Luther King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington