Black Leaders Month

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Across
  1. 2. prolific leader of the Underground Railroad
  2. 3. founder of Tuskegee University
  3. 7. first Black president
  4. 10. father of the civil rights movement
  5. 11. Supreme Court's first African American justice
  6. 12. African American female poet
  7. 13. prominent activist and spokesman for the Nation of Islam
  8. 15. first Black woman elected into Congress
  9. 17. first African American First Lady
Down
  1. 1. first African American baseball player
  2. 3. first African American woman to fly a plane
  3. 4. refused to get off the bus
  4. 5. wrote the novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
  5. 6. first field secretary for the NAACP
  6. 8. first little girl to attend an all white school
  7. 9. first female mathematician to work at NASA
  8. 14. delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech
  9. 16. Pan-Africanist civil rights activist