Black History Month Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. Movement in Harlem NY marked by politics literature fashion music theater and art made by black Americans during 1920s and 1930s
  2. 4. Revolutionary Civil Rights Leader of the Nation of Islam known for his powerful speeches
  3. 5. Known as the “Moses of her People” after her own freedom she continually returned to the South to lead slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad; also known as the First Black woman in the military as she served as a spy scout and nurse during the Civil War
  4. 6. Davis Educator and outspoken activist who identified with the Black Panther Party and Communist Party; she was fired from her job at UCLA due to ties to the Communist Party
  5. 10. Hughes Poet who wrote poem “I too am America”
  6. 11. Actor known for his iconic roles as Jackie Robinson James Brown Thurgood Marshall and the Black Panther
  7. 13. Baldwin Writer and playwright who balanced like between the U.S. and France he also wrote “The Fire Next Time” and other essays detailing the black experience in America
  8. 14. Slave who taught to read and write from his master’s wife; later becoming an accomplished orator
  9. 16. Ironic last name of couple Richard and Mildred whose 1967 Virginia court case legalized interracial marriage
  10. 17. First black man who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  11. 19. Scientist and Educator who discovered 300 derivatives of peanuts a nalternative cash crop for a dying cotton farming industry
  12. 23. First Vice President of the United States of African Descent
  13. 24. Former slave abolitionist and women’s right advocate known as a great orator. She recited her famous “Ain’t I A Woman” speech at a 1891 women’s rights conference
  14. 27. Author knows for her works “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” “Still I Rise” and “Phenomenal Woman”
  15. 28. Founder and First President of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Tuskegee University) his views opposed that of WEB Du Bois
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  1. 1. Actor who portrayed Malcolm X and Ruben “Hurricane” Carter; and also starred in movies “Philadelphia” “Training Day” “Out of Time” and “The Equalizer” and etc.
  2. 2. Leader at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement who delivered the powerful “I Have a Dream” speech
  3. 4. First black woman self-made millionaire who created a line of hair care products for Black Americans due to her own scalp ailment
  4. 7. Local and state laws that reinforced segregation in the South
  5. 8. First Black man that integrated Major League Baseball
  6. 9. Author who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom a Pulitzer Price and the First Black Woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; her works include; “Song of Solomon” “Beloved” and “The Bluest Eye”
  7. 12. Period after the Civil War designated to integrate 4 million freed slaves into society; it failed due to radical groups and laws that made life complicated for the newly freed slaves
  8. 15. Activist who helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement by refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man
  9. 18. First President of the United States of African Descent
  10. 20. Educator and politician she was the first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968 and the First Black American and Woman to run for nomination of the Presidency for one of the 2 major parties
  11. 21. At 6 years old she was the first Black student to integrate an elementary school in the south
  12. 22. Actress philanthropist talk show host and self-made billionaire who now has her OWN Network
  13. 25. First Black President of South Africa who spent 27 years in prison for fighting against Apartheid
  14. 26. A founder of the NAACP he was the first African American to obtain a doctorate from Harvard in 1891; He also taught history sociology and economics One of his famous literary works is “The Souls of Black Folk”;