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- 3. 13-month mass protest that ended with the US Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
- 5. Sorority founded in 1908 at Howard University to encourage its members to aspire to the highest levels of scholastic achievement, service, and friendship.
- 8. 44th President of the United States of America
- 9. American minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
- 11. Father of Black History (middle initial included)
- 12. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar
- 14. Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where in the early 20th century African Americans had created a self-sufficient prosperous business district.
- 15. College Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, is the oldest private historically Black liberal arts institution for women.
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- 1. Inventor credited for developing America's first fully functioning clock
- 2. Founded in 1906 at Cornell University in New York, it is the first black intercollegiate Greek fraternity in the nation
- 3. Event was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African American
- 4. Last name of American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
- 6. 1st Black American appointed to United States Supreme Court
- 7. Known as the “Moses of her people,” she was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad
- 10. Founder of Tuskegee University (First name and Middle Initial)
- 11. He was the first Black secretary of state.
- 13. First name of the first Black athlete to play in modern Major League baseball