Black heroes

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  1. 5. This black person refused to leave their seat in a cinema after a white person wanted to sit down on her seat.
  2. 6. poet who fought for the rights of black people
  3. 8. He was the president of South Africa who helped to make white and black people equal.
  4. 10. some say he was the best boxer
  5. 12. a baseball player in the 1900s who broke the colour line in baseball
  6. 13. first black woman to win a case against a white man
  7. 14. A popular basketball player in the LA Lakers
  8. 15. a person who helped fight for equality
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  1. 1. first black female in congress
  2. 2. some say he is the best basketball player
  3. 3. Refused to give her seat to a white man on a bus
  4. 4. first female vice president
  5. 7. Fastest 100 and 200 metre sprint
  6. 9. male activist who wrote 'I have a dream'
  7. 11. this person was an abolitionist who went on 13 missions and rescued about 70 people from slavery.