Black History Month Project

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Across
  1. 4. helped to raise public awareness of racial and sexual oppression
  2. 6. made multiple trips on the Underground Railroad, saving enslaved people
  3. 7. worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to organize the successful boycott of the segregated local bus system in Montgomery
  4. 8. led and helped organize many of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, including the Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and the Selma to Montgomery Marches.
  5. 10. invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man
  6. 12. led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the United States
  7. 13. became a Methodist preacher, an outspoken advocate of racial equality and a founder of the African Methodist Church
  8. 15. person who broke the color barrier in MLB in 1947
  9. 16. the first Black woman in Congress and worked towards racial and gender equality
Down
  1. 1. fought throughout most of his career for the abolition of slavery and wrote a book about himself
  2. 2. fought against cruel Jim Crow laws, protested segregation in education, and launched an investigation into the Emmett Till lynching
  3. 3. he also won the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education in 1954, which outlawed segregated schools and paved the way for the integration of all public facilities and businesses
  4. 5. the first fighter to win the world heavyweight championship on three separate occasions and known for his social message of black pride and black resistance to white domination and for refusing induction into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
  5. 9. built a socially responsible business, helped develop African American industry, created economic opportunity for women
  6. 11. was a field secretary and director of branches for the N.A.A.C.P. in the 1940s, and she traveled throughout the Jim Crow South, organizing against discrimination and recruiting people to the Civil Rights Movement.
  7. 14. a poet, singer, autobiographer, and civil rights activist and wrote a book called I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings