Black History Month

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Across
  1. 3. Organization that fights for civil rights (5)
  2. 4. Martin Luther ______, Civil rights leader (4)
  3. 6. Music genre with deep roots in African-American culture (4)
  4. 10. The movement to end slavery (9)
  5. 11. ‘The Color ______’ Alice Walker’s famous 1982 novel (6)
  6. 13. The Great ______, movement of African Americans to northern cities (9)
  7. 14. Fannie Lou ______, civil rights activist who fought for voting rights (5)
  8. 15. Zora Neale ______, author of ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ (7)
  9. 16. James ______, author of ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’ (7)
  10. 17. Amendment that gave African-American men the right to vote (9)
  11. 18. First African-American U.S. president (6,5)
  12. 20. Richard ______, novelist, author of ‘Native Son’ (6)
  13. 23. City where Rosa Parks refused to move from bus seat (10)
  14. 24. Frederick ______ Former slave who became a powerful speaker (8)
  15. 26. ______ Airmen: African-American pilots in WWII (8)
  16. 27. Langston ______, prominent poet of the Harlem Renaissance (6)
  17. 28. Toni Morrison’s famous 1987 novel (7)
  18. 29. ______ Riders, activists who challenged segregation on buses (7)
  19. 30. Booker T. ______, American educator, author, and orator (10)
Down
  1. 1. Thurgood ______, first African-American Supreme Court justice (8)
  2. 2. Day celebrating the end of slavery in the U.S. (10)
  3. 5. Influential minister and activist (7,1)
  4. 7. Jackie ______, first African-American player in Major League Baseball (8)
  5. 8. Celebration of African heritage in African-American culture (7)
  6. 9. ______ Tubman, conductor of the Underground Railroad (7)
  7. 12. Proclamation that freed enslaved people in the U.S. (12)
  8. 16. ______ Soldiers, African-American regiments in the post-Civil War U.S. Army (7)
  9. 19. Maya ______, poet and author of ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ (7)
  10. 20. Ida B. ______, journalist and anti-lynching activist (5)
  11. 21. Black ______, party founded to promote Black empowerment and fight police brutality (8)
  12. 22. Olympian who defied Hitler’s ideology in 1936 (5,5)
  13. 24. ______ Ellington, famous jazz musician and composer (4)
  14. 25. Alabama city central to the voting rights movement (5)