Across
- 3. an athlete who overcame polio racism and sexism to become the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics
- 4. the intellectual social and artistic explosion that occurred in Harlem other northern cities in the 1920s
- 10. President Abe Lincoln freed millions of enslaved people when he issued this on January 1, 1863
- 11. Act the landmark piece of federal legislation enacted in 1965 to protect voting rights for racial minorities especially in the south
- 13. the birthplace of humanity and civilization; the 2nd largest continent in the world
- 14. an author, anthropologist and essential figure of the Harlem Renaissance whose work highlighted racial struggles in the south
- 15. a journalist and educator who fought against racism lynching and sexism; she was also one of the founders of the NAACP
- 18. an activist who refused to give up her seat to a white rider on a segregated bus this helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott
- 19. for freedom writers civil rights activists who took bus trips called freedom rides through the South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals
- 20. a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of allies
- 22. the 1964 law which ended segregation in public place and employment discrimination on the basis of identity
- 23. a mathematician at NASA whose calculations were critical to the success of the first US manned space flight
- 24. an enslaved West African who was sold to a family in Boston; she would become the first published black female poet
- 25. the most prominent figure of the civil rights movement who led peaceful protests against racial & social inequality in America
- 26. the first African American president of the US
Down
- 1. students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957; the US Army protected them from violence
- 2. a lawyer who won several important cases before the Supreme Court before becoming the first black Supreme Court justice
- 5. the first black woman elected to Congress and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination
- 6. the first african-american to play major league baseball in the modern era; he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
- 7. a liberal arts college in Louisianca that is the only historically black Roman Catholic institution in the US
- 8. the Greensboro Four the North Carolina ANC freshmen who sat at a whites only lunch counter to protest segregation their action sparked nationwide sit-ins
- 9. a media executive, philanthropist actress talk-show host TV producer andNorth America's first black billionaire
- 12. the civil rights organization founded in 1909 to ensure the political educational social and economic equality of all people
- 16. one of the few black scientists to work on the Manhattan Project a top-secret effort to build the atomic bomb during World War II
- 17. the enslaved man who participated in the Lewis & Clark expedition across the western US as an explorer and hunter
- 21. an enslaved black man who unsuccessfully appealed to the US Supreme Court for his freedom in 1857