Black History Crossword III

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Across
  1. 3. First name of the “Queen of Jazz”
  2. 4. On 1 December 1955 she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger.
  3. 6. First name of “The Real McCoy”, He invented an automatic lubricator for oiling the steam engines of locomotives and ships, patenting it in 1872 as "Improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines"
  4. 9. The largest historically black college or university (HBCU) in the United States
  5. 10. Home of the Sonic Boom of the South
  6. 13. American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist, founder and long-time president of what is now Bethune-Cookman University
  7. 15. One of his most notable inventions was a type of three-way traffic lights.
Down
  1. 1. The first state to ban slavery
  2. 2. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  3. 5. Fraternity founded on January 5, 1911, at Indiana University Bloomington, their motto is Achievement in Every Field of Human Endeavor
  4. 7. First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the world
  5. 8. Investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.(Middle Initial Included)
  6. 11. Nickname of Louis Armstrong, the American trumpeter and vocalist.
  7. 12. As a six year old she advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South
  8. 14. A founding sorority of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, is the sister organization to PhiBetSigma.