Black History Month Assignment

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  1. 3. Person who refused to give her bus seat up to a white man.
  2. 4. first African American to play in the NHL.
  3. 8. Hecivil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S.
  4. 10. She led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
  5. 12. She was an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights.
  6. 14. The person who has the most home runs ever, even though he cheated.
  7. 16. The person who abolished slavery
  8. 18. The month black history month is in
  9. 19. first African American to play in the NFL.
  10. 20. she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination.
  11. 21. escaped slavery and helped others escape
  12. 22. she calculated trajectories that led the Apollo 11 to the moon.
Down
  1. 1. he cultivated the spread of vocational schools and colleges for African Americans across the South.
  2. 2. first African American to play in the NBA.
  3. 5. He was the first Black commander of an integrated fighter wing.
  4. 6. He embarked on an incredible life of “good trouble”: as a Freedom Rider.
  5. 7. She she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination.
  6. 9. The person who gave the "I have a dream speech."
  7. 11. He established an agriculture extension in Alabama and founded an industrial research lab.
  8. 13. first African American president
  9. 15. The first African American to play in the MLB.
  10. 17. he fought his whole life to abolish slavery