Black History Month

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Across
  1. 3. to affect someone or change them in an important way
  2. 4. the ability to understand how someone else is feeling or to understand the situation they are in. It is the ability to “put yourself in someone else's shoes” and to understand the way a situation might make them feel.
  3. 5. an event in which people gather to show disapproval of something
  4. 8. The practice of people owning other people is called slavery. The owned people are called slaves. They have to work for the owners, doing whatever the owners ask them to do
  5. 9. A person who worked to get rid of slavery
  6. 10. belief that certain races of people are by birth and nature superior to others.
Down
  1. 1. to refuse to buy, use, or go to, in order to make a protest or bring about a change
  2. 2. a term used for a network of people, homes, and hideouts that slaves in the southern United States used to escape to freedom in the Northern United States and Canada.
  3. 6. the practice or policy of separating a race, class, or group from the rest of society
  4. 7. basic rights that every citizen has under the laws of the government. Civil rights for every person means that regardless of gender, skin color, religion, nationality, age, disability, or religion, a person should not be discriminated against