Black Voices

3. The way in which slaves were sold to customers
5. Martin Luther King's way of fighting for equal rights
7. The kind of racism implied in Angie Thomas' novel, Concrete Rose
9. The literary device used in this phrase: 'Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze'
12. A type of language and perhaps slang, which points to the speaker's social background and class
13. A peaceful kind of protest against Jim Crow laws keeping black people 'separate but equal'
14. What was the proclamation called, which Lincoln issued in which slaves were granted freedom in states controlled by the North

1. The first name of the black teenager tortured and killed in 1955 after allegedly flirting with a white woman
2. An American state with 4 s's and 4 i's
3. A law passed by Congress in the US and added to the Constitution
4. A word for a person fighting for the end of slavery
6. The kind of right African American males were given in 1965
8. A crucial crop grown in the South, in the 19th century, which meant a great work force was needed
10. Billie Holiday sang a song with an important metaphor for this way of punishing slaves and African Americans.
11. The last slave ship which picked up slaves in Africa after it had been made illegal