2024 Black History Month Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Activist and Black Panther Party Co-Founder who was the inspiration for a Boondocks character. Middle initial included.
  2. 3. The meal of the day given to kids for free by the Black Panther Party.
  3. 7. US Congresswoman based in Oakland, is currently running for US Senate.
  4. 8. American High School Alumni and 1988 Olympic gold medalist in the track & field 400m sprint.
  5. 11. The industry that tripled the Bay Area’s black population during WW2.
  6. 12. U Can’t Touch this Oakland native.
Down
  1. 1. Poet, writer, and civil rights activist who rests in peace but still inspires others to rise.
  2. 4. Color-based map discrimination that segregated Bay Area neighborhoods by race.
  3. 5. The migration of white residents to suburbs that tragically created impoverished urban ghettos.
  4. 6. The city that birthed the Black Panther Party to combat police brutality with their own armed patrols.
  5. 9. Iconic ‘70s Bay Area artist whose name means “clever rock.”
  6. 10. The San Francisco neighborhood nicknamed “The Harlem of the West.”