Early Black American History (1639-1900)

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Across
  1. 2. First black member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  2. 5. First person to be martyred in the Boston Massacre leading to the American Revolution, a Black man who worked as a sailor.
  3. 6. Philadelphia 1899 study
  4. 8. First Black Billionaire in the South, became rich after investing in Memphis, TN.
  5. 9. A
  6. 10. Kansas Exodusters in 1879
  7. 14. Underground Railroad
  8. 16. Trade unionist, founder of Colored National Labor Union
  9. 18. Tuskegee Institute
  10. 20. Dred Scott v. Sandford
  11. 22. Businessman, lawyer, politician, and abolitionist, born free in Philadelphia, PA
  12. 23. Civil War hero
  13. 24. Editor, organizer, suffragist and founder of the Woman's Era, the first newspaper by and for African-American women
  14. 25. First black Governor of a state of the United States of America.
  15. 26. First Black American United States Senator, 1870
Down
  1. 1. Galveston, Texas union organizer and chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.
  2. 3. First Black college president
  3. 4. A
  4. 5. Black American revolutionary who led the 1811 German Coast Uprising slave revolt in modern day Louisiana
  5. 7. Black American United States Senator
  6. 11. Journalist
  7. 12. A
  8. 13. Philadelphia
  9. 15. US Army regiment of Black servicemen
  10. 17. Amistad
  11. 19. Enslaved Black man who led the Southampton Insurrection slave revolt in modern day Virginia
  12. 21. A