Celebrating Civil Rights Heroes
How well do you know civil rights icons? Complete this puzzle and find out.
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Note: First and Last Names are together with no spaces in between. Example: RUBYBRIDGES
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Across
- 3 Activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 4 Women's rights and civil rights activist who worked extensively on issues such as voting rights and employment opportunities for African American women.
- 6 African American abolitionist and women's rights activist known for her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.
- 7 Abolitionist who helped rescue enslaved individuals via the Underground Railroad.
- 9 Labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
- 10 South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who became the country's first black president.
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- 1 Civil rights activist known for being the first African American child to desegregate an all-white school in Louisiana.
- 2 Openly gay civil rights activist and chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
- 5 First African American Supreme Court Justice, argued landmark case Brown v. Board of Education.
- 8 African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who advocated for black empowerment.
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