Celebrate Black History Month!

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Across
  1. 3. Civil Rights activist arrested for not giving up her bus seat in 1955
  2. 5. Abolitionist who escaped slavery and wrote the Slave Narratives
  3. 7. First African American recipient of the Medal of Honor
  4. 8. Led the Exodusters from Nashville to Kansas
  5. 13. Accompanied Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition
  6. 14. Sued for her son's freedom; Delivered the "Aint I a Woman" Speech
  7. 15. Founded the NAACP
  8. 16. Patriot poet of Boston and first enslaved woman to be published
  9. 17. Plaintiff of Supreme Court case that resulted in "Separate but Equal" decision
  10. 18. Established the Tuskegee Institute; Supported vocational training for freedmen
  11. 19. Sued for his freedom in 1857 but denied by Supreme Court
  12. 20. Master jazz trumpeter and singer
  13. 21. First African American aviators in the U.S. Armed Forces
Down
  1. 1. First fallen patriot of the Boston Massacre
  2. 2. Famous conductor along the Underground Railroad
  3. 4. Prolific anti-lynching journalist and Memphis suffragist
  4. 6. Most famous leader of the Civil Rights Movement
  5. 9. First African American woman elected to Congress
  6. 10. Most celebrated African American regiment of World War I
  7. 11. Famous scientist and inventor who founded hundreds of uses for the peanut
  8. 12. First African American justice to the Supreme Court