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- 1. Abolitionist and powerful speaker for freedom and women’s rights.
- 4. Writer of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”.
- 5. African American literary and artistic movement of the 1920s.
- 6. Celebration held each February in the U.S.
- 9. African American musical genre rooted in spirituals and blues.
- 10. Organization founded in 1909 to advance civil rights through legal action.
- 14. Term that means Freedom and fairness under the law.
- 15. Historically black college founded in 1867 in Washington, D.C.
- 17. Reconstruction-era constitutional amendment guaranteeing birthright citizenship.
- 19. Abolitionist newspaper published by Frederick Douglass.
- 20. First African American president of the United States.
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- 2. Baseball player who broke the color barrier.
- 3. NASA mathematician portrayed in Hidden Figures.
- 7. First African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
- 8. Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 11. Supreme Court justice who argued Brown v. Board of Education.
- 12. Civil rights activist known for advocating Black empowerment.
- 13. 19th-century African American intellectual who co-founded the NAACP.
- 16. Supreme Court case that ended legal school segregation in 1954.
- 18. Nonviolent form of resistance used during the Civil Rights Movement.