Black History Month Crossword

A Baptist minister and social rights activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement
African American man killed during an arrest after a store clerk alleged he he had passed a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis
American Rhythm and Blues singer and songwriter
The first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana
American track and field athlete and four-time gold medalist in the 1936 Olympic Games
African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line
Widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music
49th and current vice president of the United States
26-year-old African-American woman who was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment on March 13, 2020
American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States
American professional boxer, activist, entertainer and philanthropist, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time
American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton, most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century
Best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
American gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen
African American Muslim minister and human rights activist best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam
American abolitionist and political activist who was born into slavery but escaped and subsequently made 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people
American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era
American abolitionist and women's rights activist who was born into slavery but escaped, after which she became the first black woman to win a case against a white man
A decades-long campaign by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the U.S.
A decentralized political and social movement protesting against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people
The movement to end slavery
Music genre and musical form which was originated in the Deep South of the U.S. around the 1860s by African-Americans
Executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing all persons held as slaves
Disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income
Music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group
Systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life
a group of primarily African-American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II