Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. Manhattan neighborhood that became the epicenter of a Renaissance following the Great Migration
  2. 4. District in Tulsa, Oklahoma known as the "Black Wall Street"
  3. 6. First African-American child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South
  4. 10. First African-American to obtain a M.D. degree from a U.S. Medical School
  5. 13. Developer of the Blood Bank
  6. 16. First African-American male to win an Oscar for Best Actor
  7. 17. NASA engineer and inventor of the popular Super Soaker water gun
Down
  1. 1. Pulitzer-prize winning rapper
  2. 3. First African-American President of the American Medical Association(AMA)
  3. 5. First African-American Miss America
  4. 7. Established, first principal of and teacher of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
  5. 8. Famous abolitionist and autobiographer
  6. 9. The first incorporated all African-American town. Where Zora Neale Hurston was raised
  7. 11. Scholar, writer, editor, and civil rights pioneer
  8. 12. Alabama city where a MLK Jr, John Lewis and others crossed the famous bridge in 1965
  9. 14. 2016 movie about the 3 African-American mathematicians at NASA
  10. 15. Known as the "Conductor" of the Underground Railroad
  11. 18. First African-American female to win an Oscar for Best Actress