Across
- 4. This person refused to give up her seat on the bus before Rosa Parks did and challenged the law.
- 6. Claudette Colvin wasn't chosen as the ____ of the movemtent because they didn't think teenagers were reliable enough and Rosa Parks had the right look.
- 7. Despite the challenges facing them and the discrimination that came up wherever they walked, many African-Americans still were able to ____ above this and follow what they believed in.
- 9. Jesse Owens still had trouble getting this even after he got a gold medal in the Olympics.
- 10. An influential leader of the Civil Rights Movement who refused to give up her seat on the bus and stood up for people's rights.
- 11. A leader who ran away from the Summer Olympics when he found out that Jesse Owens won.
Down
- 1. An African-American Woman who worked for NASA and helped send the first man to the moon.
- 2. A famous baseball player who broke the color barrier and became the first African-American on a Major League team.
- 3. This track star raced in the Summer Olympics of 1936 in Berlin and still faced a lot of barriers and discrimination following this.
- 5. Many influential African-Americans proved that they weren't ________ to white people
- 8. Many African Americans had to face ___________ in their daily life.