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2. A holiday that commemorates the emancipation of over 250,000 Black Americans. On this day in 1865 — over two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation legally declared slaves in Confederate states free and two months after the official end of the Civil War — Union soldiers arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, to inform the people there of their legal freedom from slavery.
5. Social reformer and abolitionist who was a leader of the African American civil rights movement in the 1800s.
6. ______ v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark Supreme Court case ending racial segregation in public schools.
7. Civil Rights activist known for sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott when refusing to give up her bus seat for a white passenger.
8. The 1964 legislation outlawing discrimination and segregation on the basis of race, color, religion, sex and national origin.
9. The federal agency established by Congress to aid formerly enslaved individuals after the Civil War.
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1. The first Black woman elected to Congress (1968) and the first Black woman to run for president (1972) with the slogan, “Unbought and unbossed.”
3. A network of routes toward freedom for enslaved people that ran between the northern and southern U.S., famously used by Harriet Tubman to lead multiple groups of enslaved people to freedom.
4. The name of the 1963 rally “for Jobs and Freedom” where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech to hundreds of thousands of demonstrators.