Alabama Crossword
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
 
 
Down: 1) US Space Rocket Center; the city is the Rocket capital of the world.2) Nat "King" Cole and Hank Williams.3) The first Confederate capital and where the modern civil rights movement began.4) Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Jesse Owens, and Joe Louis.5) Belonged to Spain and then France before it became a state.6) Leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's and 1960's, when he defended Rosa Parks, who refused to go to the back of the bus.7) This former slave and civil rights leader improved race relations and helped African-Americans achieve higher education and a better standard of living. His work laid the foundation to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, when important federal civil rights laws were passed in favor of African-Americans.10) As an African-American, she refused to give up her bus seat for a white man when ordered to do so. This led to the Civil Rights Movement led by King. Across: 8) Educator and inventor. Helped the South diversify by inventing many uses of sweet potatoes, soybeans, and peanuts. We'd have no PBJ's without him.9) Boll Weevil Monument, commemorating the boll weevil for forcing Alabama farmers to diversify their crops.11) Blind and deaf from an illness when an infant, she learned to speak, read, and become an activist for the cause of handicapped people everywhere.
 

 

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