Black History Month

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  1. 1. in 1963, before church services a church was ____ in Birmingham, Alabama killing 4 girls
  2. 3. these laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  3. 4. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist
  4. 7. author of famous poem Still I Rise
  5. 11. established the Underground Railroad in 1849
  6. 13. 14 year old killed in Mississippi by two white men for offending a white woman
  7. 14. laws passed by Southern states restricting African Americans' freedom
  8. 15. first scholar to study African-American history
  9. 17. first African American heavyweight boxing champion
  10. 19. first African-American child to desegregate an all white school in Louisiana
  11. 21. this amendment gave African American men the right to vote
  12. 22. protest march that occurred in 1963, when people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial
  13. 24. Jackie Robinson played this sport
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  1. 2. first black president
  2. 5. Martin Luther King was assassinated in this city
  3. 6. first American woman to become a self-made millionaire
  4. 8. group of nine African American students enrolled in an all white high school
  5. 9. famous bus boycott took place in this city
  6. 10. civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States
  7. 11. first black performer to win an Academy Award
  8. 12. this amendment ended slavery in 1865
  9. 16. first African American woman to travel in space
  10. 18. black slave who led slave rebellions
  11. 20. refused to give up her seat to a white passenger
  12. 23. Earl Lloyd was the first African American ___ player