Across
- 1. He was such an amazing speaker that he started traveling all over the northern states, trying to convince large groups of people to end the practice of enslaving people.
- 3. Thanks to his leadership and his pilots’ success, the military now understood that allowing Black and white soldiers to serve together was the right thing to do.
- 5. Her thrilling speeches won her the respect of many educated people fighting for the rights of Black people and women. That included President Abraham Lincoln.
- 6. His best known case was Brown vs. Board of Education, which challenged school segregation, when white and Black students are forced to go to separate schools.
- 8. Inspired to spread knowledge to others, Washington later established and became the first principal and teacher of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
- 9. Using reporting methods that are still used today, she exposed conditions that African Americans were forced to live under.
- 11. She was told to give up her seat to a white passenger. She refused.
- 13. Decided to run for president (the first African-American woman to do so)
- 14. The first African-American woman to obtain an international pilot’s license
Down
- 2. Became the first Black person to graduate from Iowa State College
- 4. One of her biggest accomplishments at NASA was helping calculate the trajectory, or path, of the country’s first human spaceflight in 1961, making sure astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., had a safe trip.
- 7. Delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech, which boosted public support for civil rights
- 10. His most memorable act of “good trouble” occurred on March 7, 1965, when he led a group of 600 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on what would be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
- 12. Is well known for risking her life as a “conductor” in the Underground Railroad, which led escaped enslaved people to freedom in the North.