Black History Month!

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  1. 6. The Underground ________ was a network to escape slavery prior to the Civil War
  2. 8. Black History Month was originally celebrated in February to honor the birthdays of abolitionist _______ Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln
  3. 9. Marsha P. ________ was the drag queen and activist known for throwing the first brick at Stonewall
  4. 11. Black women were finally able to legally vote 45 years after white women due to the Voting ______ Act of 1965
  5. 12. ______ Wheatley Peters was best known for writing the poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America" about her own experience of being kidnapped as a child and enslaved
  6. 14. Jazz singer that the cartoon Betty Boop was based on
  7. 15. First state to abolish slavery
  8. 16. Appointed in February of 2022, _______ Brown Jackson is the first Black woman and the first former federal public defender on the Supreme Court.
  9. 18. First Black actress to win an Academy Award
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  1. 1. The federal holiday that commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States
  2. 2. The historian Carter G. _________ first created what we now celebrated as Black History Month in America
  3. 3. The first Black U.S. president
  4. 4. According to Smithsonian Magazine, one in four of these Western ranch hands was Black
  5. 5. Scientist and educator George W. Carver invented over 300 products related to this crop
  6. 7. Wilma Rudolph won three medals at the Summer ________ in 1960 and refused to attend segregated festivities, resulting in her Tennessee hometown integrating the celebratory parade and banquet
  7. 10. The last name of the first Black U.S. vice president
  8. 13. Sister Rosetta Tharpe was known as the “_______ of Rock ‘n’ Roll” and hugely influenced rock music for decades to come
  9. 17. Maya Angelou's most famous poem is entitled "I Know Why The Caged Bird ____"