Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. Madam _________ born 1867, entrepneur, philanthropist, political/social activist became the first female self-made millionaire in America.
  2. 5. 1967, the ban on ____________ marriage ended because of Mildred and Richard Loving's Supreme Court Case.
  3. 6. Bayard Rustin, born 1912, civil/human rights activist advocating nonviolence. Being gay,worked behind the scenes avoiding criticism.In 1980's he became an_____ activist. Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom.
  4. 7. In 1864, ___________ became the 1st black woman physician in the U.S.
  5. 11. In 1995, Octavia E. Butler became the 1st ____________ writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship
  6. 12. In 1721, __________a slave is credited with bringing knowledge of "provoking an immune response" for smallpox that set the stage for vaccination.
Down
  1. 1. 1921,_____ became the 1st black female pilot. She wasn't accepted by American flight schools because she was a black woman. So she learned French and went to France to flight school.
  2. 3. 1917, Eugen Bullard became the 1st black American to become a _________pilot
  3. 4. In 1909, __________ was a key member of the 1st successful expedition to the North Pole.
  4. 8. March 29, 2022 Emmett Till Antilynching Act passed and was signed into ______ making lynching a Federal hate crime.
  5. 9. In 1875, James Augustine Healy was appointed Catholic ______ of Portland, Maine. He was the 1st black person to serve as a Catholic Priest or Bishop.
  6. 10. In 1862 Nathaniel Gordon of _______, Maine became the only slave trader tried,convicted,and executed for being engaged in slave trade.