Black History Month

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Across
  1. 3. African- American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched at the age of 14 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
  2. 6. an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the nineteenth century
  3. 7. Nicknamed "the Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
  4. 9. enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad
  5. 10. the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
Down
  1. 1. awarded a Pulitzer Prize "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching."
  2. 2. First black woman to be elected into the United States Congress
  3. 4. First African- American woman to hold a pilot license.
  4. 5. Did research with peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.
  5. 8. She was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.