Famous African Americans Crossword
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
                                             
 
 
Down: 1) poet and award winning author2) influential NFL coach with the Indianapolis Colts3) first African American President of the United States.4) first casualty of the Boston Massacre5) first African American to play in the major leagues12) famous African American actor; he was the voice of Darth Vader and also the king in the movie"Coming to America."13) runaway slave, she led hundreds to freedom as the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad14) refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation15) Civil Rights activist who organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination18) former MLB player for the Atlanta Braves who hit 755 home runs Across: 3) born a slave, he founded Tuskegee University in 1881.6) first African American to go into space7) first African American to be appointed as the U.S. Secretary of State8) escaped slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement9) first African American actor to win Academy Award for best actor10) won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany11) first African American Supreme Court Justice16) born a slave in Missouri, he became a scientist who came up with over 100 used for the peanut17) minister and leader of the Civil Rights movement, assassinated in 1968.19) self-taught scientist, inventor, farmer, and astronomer
 

 

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