Black History Month

3. first African American MLB player with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
5. first African American woman to orbit in space aboard Endeavour
7. Congress of Racial Equality, most famous for launching Freedom Rides
8. "We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
10. amendment that abolished slavery
13. department store seamstress who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger
15. first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner
16. "Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
17. "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?"
19. "It isn’t where you come from; it’s where you’re going that counts.”

1. "Truth is powerful and it prevails."
2. first African American woman elected to Congress in 1968
4. "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
6. amendment that prohibits denying voting rights based on race, color, or previous servitude
9. commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States
11. famed author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Signs" in 1969
12. launched in 1961 to test local compliance with federal orders to desegregate interstate bus terminals
14. amendment that established African Americans, including ex-slaves, as American citizens
18. formed February 12, 1909, to work toward the abolition of segregation and discrimination