Black History Month - 5 People You Should Know

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Across
  1. 2. Antoinette Tuff stopped a tragedy at a what?
  2. 4. Robert Abbott was one of America's first self-made Black what?
  3. 5. Amanda Gorman is the first ever Youth ________ Laureate in the US.
  4. 9. What is the title of Kwame Alexander's most popular book?
  5. 12. Although_______ _________ is well known for not giving up her seat to a white passenger (despite being ordered to), Claudette Colvin did it 9 months before her.
  6. 13. 15 year old Claudette Colvin was sent to _________ for not complying with the racial laws in America at that time.
  7. 14. What award did Kwame Alexander's TV show win?
  8. 15. Robert Abbott's newspaper The Chicago Defender aided in the "Great Migration" by printing articles about the benefits of Black people moving away from the __________.
Down
  1. 1. In 1870 Robert Abbott was born in south east Georgia to formerly enslaved ____________.
  2. 2. The newspaper Robert Abbott owned reported on events important to African Americans including the Red ____________ Riots.
  3. 3. What did Antoinette Tuff say to calm the man holding the school hostage? "I _______ you though, ok?"
  4. 6. Kwame Alexander says the way we become better writers is by what?
  5. 7. What adjective did the reporter at the beginning (00:07) of the video use to describe Antoinette Tuff?
  6. 8. White passengers told Claudette Colvin that she needed to move from her seat because it was the what?
  7. 10. Amanda Gorman says her ___________ impediment actually led her to writing poetry and preforming it out loud.
  8. 11. While at Harvard, Amanda started "One Pen One Page," and organization to inspire other young writers to share their what?