Black History Month

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Across
  1. 1. first African American to win a Grand Slam (tennis) title
  2. 3. first Black person to win a Nobel Prize
  3. 4. former slave & outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the nineteenth century
  4. 6. 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
  5. 9. Black History Month
  6. 11. a collaborative umbrella council composed of historically African American fraternities and sororities
  7. 12. Father of Black history
  8. 18. America's oldest and largest civil rights organization
  9. 19. first Black U.S. military pilots in the 1940's
  10. 22. intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in NYC
  11. 24. first African American to play in the MLB
  12. 25. American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the NAACP
  13. 26. a “conductor” in the Underground Railroad
Down
  1. 2. first African-American Supreme Court Justice
  2. 5. first female African-American space traveler.
  3. 7. first state to abolish slavery
  4. 8. first African-American U.S. president
  5. 10. 'I Have a Dream'
  6. 13. one of America's first millionaires as a result of a hair care line
  7. 14. inventor of the three-light traffic signal
  8. 15. The NBA website states "He is the greatest basketball player of all time".
  9. 16. King of Pop
  10. 17. inventor of carbon light filament
  11. 20. First HBCU
  12. 21. first African-American to win an Academy Award
  13. 23. became famous for his "Famous Amos" chocolate chip cookies