Black History Month

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  1. 3. American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era
  2. 5. American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement
  3. 8. he first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress
  4. 13. was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
  5. 14. best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
  6. 15. the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team, and the only black man ever to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open
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  1. 1. first African-American woman and Native American to hold a pilot license
  2. 2. was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite
  3. 4. American abolitionist and social activist
  4. 6. first African-American woman to travel into space
  5. 7. American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s
  6. 9. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
  7. 10. American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
  8. 11. American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist
  9. 12. American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist