Black History Month

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Across
  1. 1. First Black woman to refuse to give up her seat on a bus for white passengers, BEFORE Rosa Parks.
  2. 4. Over 100,000 enslaved people escaped to the_______ via the Underground Railroad.
  3. 6. First novel written by an African American, published in 1853.
  4. 7. Computer scientist Lisa Gelobter assisted with the 1995 creation of this essential technology that led to the development of web animation.
  5. 8. In 1619,ships from this country brought 20 Africans ashore at the British colony of Jamestown, beginning the spread of slavery through the American colonies.
  6. 9. First black woman to head a Fortune 500 company, Xerox.
  7. 10. Harriet Tubman’s reconnaissance work in June 1963 laid the foundation for the daring Union raid on ________ _________.
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  1. 2. Demonstration in Birmingham where thousands of students took to the streets to protest racial segregation.
  2. 3. Guion S. Bluford became the first Black American to go into______ and would spend 688 hours there over the course of his career.
  3. 5. Creator of Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson is referred to as the “___________ of Black History;” he was the second African American to graduate from Harvard with a doctorate, and is credited with being one of the first to research the history of African Americans.
  4. 6. Dr. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. became Chairman and CEO TIAA-CREF, distinguishing him as the first black ___ of a Fortune 500 company.