Black History Month Vocabulary Crossword *Fill in the Blank*

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Across
  1. 2. In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King's voice ________ across the country to many American citizens.
  2. 10. Parks was standing up for her rights as a human being and a citizen of the United States by using Civil ________________________.
  3. 12. People argued that Jesse Owens was ____________ the best track star in the world.
  4. 13. King believed in the principle of ____________. That meant that he would never use violence to achieve his goals.
  5. 14. People of color also faced severe police brutality, unfair courtrooms, and __________ when they tried to vote.
  6. 15. After the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, Tubman did not let the dangerous journey _______ her.
Down
  1. 1. On her journey, Tubman would _______ by a strict set of rules.
  2. 3. The Women's ______ Movement helped women gain the right to vote.
  3. 4. The Underground Railroad members were former enslaved people, _______, and many more.
  4. 5. Jesse Owens' family had to ________ to a new state to escape the segregation laws in the South.
  5. 6. In 1999, Ruby Bridges formed a foundation to promote ___________ and respect.
  6. 7. At the summer Olympics in Germany, Jesse Owens went up against the country's leader, a person who believed in the _________ of white people.
  7. 8. Martin Luther King Jr. helped pass the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, which ended segregation and voting _____________.
  8. 9. Harriet Tubman _______ the help of the very people she freed to join the Underground Railroad.
  9. 11. One ___________ fact about Jesse Owens was that he was never offered a scholarship in college because of his race.