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Black History Month Word Search

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Black History Month Word Search

Name ______________   Date ________

Find these words

  • ANGELOU
  • CARVER
  • DOUGLASS
  • FEBRUARY
  • FREEDOM
  • HISTORY
  • HUGHES
  • JUSTICE
  • KING
  • OWENS
  • PARKS
  • ROBINSON
  • TRUTH
  • TUBMAN
  • WOODSON
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Solving on screen? Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letters.

For
Grades 4–6
Time
10–15 min
Grid
13 × 13
Words
15
Paper
US Letter, 2 pages
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About this puzzle

Every February, Black History Month remembers the people and the courage behind the long fight for freedom and equal rights in America. This word search includes Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, scientist George Washington Carver, Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Justice Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens, poets Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou, and NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, plus Carter G. Woodson, the historian who began Negro History Week in 1926.

Easy hides 10 of the 20 words across and down; Medium hides 15 of the 20 words also diagonally; Hard hides all 20 words in all eight directions, backwards too.

All 20 words in this theme: February, Freedom, History, King, Parks, Tubman, Douglass, Truth, Carver, Owens, Robinson, Justice, Woodson, Angelou, Hughes, Johnson, Marshall, Equality, Civil Rights, Courage.

Questions

Which words are on the Easy Black History Month word search?

Carver, Douglass, February, Freedom, History, King, Owens, Parks, Truth, Tubman. The harder levels add more of the theme’s 20 words.

Is there a large print Black History Month word search?

Yes: the large print Black History Month word search has 12 words in big, bold letters on an 11 × 11 grid, never backwards.

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