Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. poet who wrote "Stil I Rise"
  2. 4. American art form born from Black musical traditions
  3. 6. Historically Black colleges and universities
  4. 10. first African American President
  5. 11. "Moses of her people"
  6. 13. university founded by Booker T. Washington
  7. 15. Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
  8. 16. Site of the 1965 voting‑rights marches
Down
  1. 1. Neo‑expressionist painter
  2. 3. Queen of Soul
  3. 5. Genre blending Black culture with speculative futures
  4. 7. Singer of “Strange Fruit”
  5. 8. Detroit label that helped shaped American pop
  6. 9. fighter
  7. 11. Last name of the Harlem Renaissance poet
  8. 12. Scholar and co‑founder of the NAACP
  9. 14. Last name of the civil rights leader honored each January