Happy Black History Month!

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  1. 2. Bridges, Known for desegregating schools in the south
  2. 6. Tools were created to tame this type of hair
  3. 7. Jackson, King of Pop music
  4. 9. first black President of the United States
  5. 12. the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people
  6. 13. Crow, laws that legalized segregation of the Black population of the United States
  7. 16. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  8. 17. the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint
  9. 19. Rights, the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
  10. 21. Black Lives Matter
  11. 24. writer and poet passed in 2014 after a life of fighting for social justice and so much more
  12. 27. Wall Street, former byname of the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma
  13. 29. Colvin, 9 months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat this 15 year old did the same thing
  14. 30. cause someone to feel distressed, anxious, or uncomfortable
  15. 32. first black billionaire
  16. 33. originated in the late 19th to early 20th century including blues, spirituals, hymns, ragtime and more
  17. 35. Black History Month
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  1. 1. riders, Civil rights activists who rode interstate busses into the segregated Southern United States
  2. 3. being aware of current social issues
  3. 4. a U.S. holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States
  4. 5. antagonism by an individual community or institution against a person or persons based on their membership of a specific group
  5. 8. an American Muslim minister and human rights activist
  6. 10. Parks, woman who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man
  7. 11. just behavior or treatment
  8. 13. Robinson, made history in 1947 when he was chosen to play for the dodgers
  9. 14. a state of being united or joined as a whole
  10. 15. Scholar whose dedication to celebrating the historic contributions of black people led to the establishment of Black History Month
  11. 18. food, fried chicken is classified as this
  12. 20. social disparity
  13. 22. Ballou, Martin Luther King Jr. Secretary
  14. 23. Giselle Knowles-Carter
  15. 25. lack of fairness
  16. 26. the attempt to prevent something by action or argument
  17. 28. found over 300 ways to use peanuts
  18. 31. first black Grammy winner
  19. 34. last name of an escaped slave who helped others gain freedom