Who's Who Black History Crossword
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1) Born to a Kenyan father and White American mother on August 4, 1961. Was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. Became the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009. Was a senator for the state of Illinois. He became the first African-American to adorn the throne of the White House.2) On February 1, 1960, four friends sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro. The four people were African American, and they sat where African Americans weren’t allowed to sit. They did this to take a stand against segregation. Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan), Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond Were freshmen at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina (now North Carolina A&T State University). The students wanted to protest segregation laws that prevented African Americans from entering certain public places. They agreed to stage a sit-in at Woolworth’s, a variety store that had an eating area. African Americans could shop in the store and eat at a stand-up snack bar, but they could not sit at the lunch counter. Students in other North Carolina cities started their own sit-ins. The peaceful protests soon spread to other states in the South. African Americans began picketing Woolworth’s and other stores with segregated lunch counters in the North, too. The Greensboro Woolworth’s finally began serving blacks at its lunch counter on July 25, 1960, six months after the sit-in began. The first people served were the lunch counter employees themselves. In the first week, three hundred African Americans ate at that lunch counter.4) Born July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1954, he became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. he organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations, and boycotts. He also worked to investigate crimes perpetrated against blacks. On June 12, 1963, was shot in the back in the driveway of his home in Jackson. It took 31 years after his murder for his killer to be convicted. Whoopi Goldberg played his wife in the biographical movie called Ghosts of Mississippi. |
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3) Born October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina. Died January 28, 1986. Graduated from Carver High School, Lake City, South Carolina, in 1967; received a bachelor of science degree in Physics from North Carolina A&T State University in 1971,presented an honorary doctorate of Laws from North Carolina A&T. (D.) Ronald McNair. Born October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina. Died January 28, 1986. Graduated from Carver High School, Lake City, South Carolina, in 1967; received a bachelor of science degree in Physics from North Carolina A&T State University in 1971,presented an honorary doctorate of Laws from North Carolina A&T. Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978, he completed a 1-year training and evaluation period in August 1979, qualifying him for assignment as a mission specialist astronaut on Space Shuttle flight crews. was assigned as a mission specialist on STS 51-L. He died on January 28, 1986 when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after launch from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.5) She received a Tony nomination for her role in Look Away and an Emmy nomination for her performance in the landmark miniseries Roots. Following sexual abuse and murder in her family, was electively mute for several years of her childhood. She began speaking again at the age of 13. She read her poem “On the Pulse of the Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration. The only other poet to have performed at a presidential inauguration was Robert Frost, who read at Kennedy’s. Despite numerous honorary degrees and academic engagements, she does not have a college education. to humanity.” Also, wrote a poem called “Phenomenal Woman” & the book “Why the caged bird sing.”6) Born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus spurred a city-wide boycott and helped launch nation-wide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. She received many accolades during her lifetime, including the NAACP's highest award.7) His father was born in Haiti and had some French background; his great grandmother Elizabeth Freeman was a slave who sued to earn her freedom, an action that contributed to the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts. He was one of the founders of the Niagara Movement, a civil rights group that eventually developed into the NAACP. He was given the Lenin Peace Prize (a Soviet analogue to the Nobel Prize) in 1959 and joined the Communist Party two years later. In the 1950s, He was charged with being a foreign agent for his antiwar activities. He became a citizen of the West African nation of Ghana in 1963, when he was 95 years old.8) Real name was Isabella Baumfree. She was born in 1797. She had 12 siblings. She was sold at the age of 9 to John Neeley, along with a herd of sheep for $100. Only spoke Dutch. She became an amazing preacher. She eventually became a traveling preacher and in later years became a political activist, fighting for the freedom of slaves and women’s rights. Died on November 26, 1883, in Battle Creek Michigan, at the age of 86. |
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