Celebrating Black History Month

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Across
  1. 3. ____ v. Board of Education, 1954 school desegregation case
  2. 5. Colleges founded to educate Black students, for short
  3. 6. Starting point of a pivotal 1965 voting rights march
  4. 7. Physician‑engineer who became the first Black woman in space
  5. 8. Conductor on the Underground Railroad nicknamed “Moses”
  6. 9. Scientist famed for innovations with peanuts
Down
  1. 1. WWII fighter group known as the “Red Tails”
  2. 2. Abolitionist orator who wrote Narrative of the Life
  3. 4. Holiday commemorating emancipation announced in Texas on June 19, 1865
  4. 5. 2016 film celebrating NASA’s Black women mathematicians