Black History Month

2. The first African-American professional Baseball player.
4. He was revered by many younger civil rights activists who regarded him as the spiritual father of the movement.
6. After escaping slavery, he became an author, public speaker, and prominent leader of the abolitionist movement.
9. Co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942.
10. He became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
12. He helped lead protests against the segregation of public primary schools, beaches, parks, and at the University of Mississippi.
13. her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, which inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
15. Excelled academically and became the first teacher and principal at the Tuskegee Institute.

1. escaped from slavery and spent 11 years guiding other enslaved people to freedom.
3. The first African-American woman elected to serve in Congress.
5. She is the first African-American woman to have her very own television production company.
7. The 44th President of the United States.
8. He was an Olympic gold medalist and the first fighter to win the world heavyweight title three times.
11. The head of the oldest and largest of the civil rights organizations, the NAACP.
14. Baptist minister and activist who fought against racial inequality.