Across
- 2. Civil rights leader’s middle name
- 5. Actress in "Love and Basketball"
- 8. Legendary jazz singer
- 9. Anti-apartheid activist
- 11. Civil rights leader
- 13. Famous boxer and activist
- 16. Wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
- 18. Actress in "Monster’s Ball"
- 20. Poet and civil rights activist
- 21. Founder of Motown Records
- 22. Civil rights heroine
- 24. Underground Railroad conductor
- 27. Pop icon and activist
- 28. Actor and comedian
- 29. Wrote "The Souls of Black Folk"
- 30. Abolitionist author and speaker
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- 1. Civil rights leader
- 3. First name Sojourner
- 4. Activist and scholar Angela
- 6. Refused to give up her bus seat
- 7. Led enslaved to freedom
- 10. Talk show trailblazer
- 12. First Black woman in Congress
- 14. Harlem Renaissance poet
- 15. Author of "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
- 17. First Black U.S. president
- 19. First Black Oscar-winning actor
- 23. Dreamed of racial equality
- 25. South African leader
- 26. Site of major protests