Black History Month!

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  1. 5. What Martin Luther King Jr. fought to end
  2. 8. Luther King Jr. He created of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  3. 9. Have a Dream Speech Words so powerful Spoken from Martin Luther King Jr. they changed the minds of billions of people around the world
  4. 10. Lincoln He created The Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  5. 11. The purpose of Black History Month
  6. 14. In honor of all African's Americans who change our world for good
  7. 15. Tubman escaped from slavery and became one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad
  8. 16. The act or belief of discriminating people for their skin color
  9. 18. Rights Act of 1964 This law prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin and also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation
  10. 19. 4, 1968 The day an African American Leader who fought against segregation was assassinated
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  1. 1. Rights Act of 1965 Making it easier for Southern colored people to register to vote
  2. 2. Robinson He was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball
  3. 3. Obama He is an African American who is currently changing our world
  4. 4. Jail Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent here after and wrote letters from here too
  5. 6. Baines Johnson He signed the law for African Americans to be able to vote
  6. 7. Douglass He Wrote about his life describing his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography
  7. 12. African Americans begin a march to Montgomery in support of voting rights and is also the name of a movie based on Martin Luther King Jr.
  8. 13. Rights Movement largest social movement of the 20th century
  9. 16. Parks A female rightist who fought with Martin Luther King Jr.
  10. 17. what most African Americans were forced to be