Unleashed Black History Facts

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Across
  1. 3. W.E.B. DuBois was the first African American awarded this degree from Harvard
  2. 6. famous Martin Luther King Jr speech
  3. 8. Booker T Washington founded this tiny school in 1881 and in its place now stands
  4. 11. The "Greatest" professional boxer
  5. 12. Ruby Bridges was first black child to attend school during
  6. 13. 1st African American appointed to Supreme Court
  7. 16. Father of Black History
  8. 19. George Washington Carver derived over 300 products using
  9. 20. Muslim minister and activist
Down
  1. 1. Harriet Tubman led slaves to freedom by
  2. 2. 1st Black woman elected to Congress
  3. 4. Famous poet awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by Obama
  4. 5. innovated traffic light to include the yellow signal
  5. 7. 1st Black president
  6. 9. worked for equality and human rights, helped with the Emancipation Proclamation
  7. 10. social movement from 1954-1968
  8. 14. Madam CJ Walker created what products making her a self-made millionaire
  9. 15. refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  10. 17. 14 year old boy abducted tortured and lynched
  11. 18. civil rights organization formed in 1909 by group of African American leaders