2024 Black History Month

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  1. 3. Joshua _____, portrait painter in 19th-centure Baltimore with over 100 portraits and distinctive style
  2. 5. ____ Soaker, invented by Lonnie Johnson while working for the U.S. Air Force
  3. 7. 118th president of the ASA, ASA Fellow. FDA Office of Biostatistics, division director (F&L)
  4. 8. ______ Riperton, singer with a 5-octave vocal range; also mother of Maya Rudolph
  5. 10. First African-American woman to fly in space (F&L)
  6. 12. State where the first African-American women was elected to the state legislature, Crystal Bird Fauset
  7. 15. The Kansas City _______, the longest running Negro League baseball franchise. First team to use portable lighting for night games
  8. 18. Style associated with sculptor Edmonia Lewis. President Grant commissioned a portrait bust from her
  9. 20. Actress _____ McDaniel was the first African-American performer to win an Academy Award for her role in “Gone With the Wind”
  10. 22. Rhiannon ______, NC-born musician and founding member of Carolina Chocolate Drops
  11. 23. ______ Renaissance, a groundbreaking arts movement in NYC
  12. 24. Astronaut Victor Glover will fly on the SpaceX _______
  13. 25. First person to win both an Olympic medal and an Academy Award (F&L)
  14. 26. Genre of writer George Moses Horton. First published African-American author, lived in Chatham County, NC.
  15. 28. African-American historian who created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became Black History Month in 1976
  16. 29. 1st woman appoints to chair the US. Equal Opportunity Employment commission. Advocates for DC statehood. Congressional delegate.
  17. 30. First African-American astronaut (F&L)
  18. 33. World Wide _________; business of David L. Steward, one of the largest African-American businesses in the U.S.
  19. 35. Scientist who improved sunspot cycle predictions (F&L)
  20. 36. First African American nominated & won for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for a debut film
Down
  1. 1. First African-American male to graduate from NCSU with a degree in mathematics (F&L)
  2. 2. Gil Scott-Heron, spoken word performer who laid the groundwork for rap music. “The _____ will not be televised”
  3. 4. The NAACP was founded in ______ 1909 as a permanent civil rights organization
  4. 6. Acclaimed dancer and choreographer with immense impact on modern dance (F&L)
  5. 8. Civil rights activist, advocate, and Episcopal priest; raised in Durham NC
  6. 9. ASA Fellow, research on human circadian system, Harvard graduate, neuroscience and anesthesiologist (F&L)
  7. 11. Gordon Parks was the first Black writer and director of a studio film, and his second movie was ____
  8. 13. Theme of 2024 Black History Month: African Americans and the ____
  9. 14. RomareBeardon – Charlotte, NC-born, nation’s foremost collagist, co-wrote jazz hit “Seabreeze” (F&L)
  10. 16. Ann Lowe, one of America’s most influential clothing ______
  11. 17. This medal is awarded annually by the NAACP for outstanding achievement by an African American. 2022 winner, Jim Clyburn.
  12. 19. Marian ______, opera singer and first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. Awarded Presidential Metal of Freedom
  13. 21. Mary Church _____, advocate for women’s equality and suffrage. Oberlin College graduate.
  14. 27. Lynn ____, playwright and winner of two Pulitzer prizes.
  15. 31. Ballet Co. where Misty Copeland is a principal dancer
  16. 32. Nettie Craig-Asberry was the first African-American women to earn a PhD (1883). Her field was _____
  17. 34. The Duke ______, designed by architect Julian Abele and built in the 1930s