The Black History Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and was known as the ‘1st Lady of the Civil Rights Movement’
  2. 3. ‘I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger’
  3. 5. Writer of “Racism 101”
  4. 6. Published the newspaper “The North Star”, and was a slave before
  5. 8. black man was the first to host his own TV show in November 1956
  6. 11. Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
  7. 12. Home Run King
Down
  1. 2. Falsely accused fourteen year old black boy was murdered for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi (he didn't!)
  2. 4. Colony first legalized slavery
  3. 7. Writer of Black National Anthem
  4. 9. ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ writer
  5. 10. First American state to ban slavery