Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. helped enlist free black men to fight in the Union Army
  2. 3. best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance
  3. 9. became the first African American to play in the Major League Baseball
  4. 12. used an "underground railroad" to free slaves
  5. 13. first black president
  6. 14. was the most famous female blues signer in the 1930s
  7. 15. was a professional golfer and entrepreneur
Down
  1. 1. won eight Grammys for his album "Thriller"
  2. 4. was the richest African American in the 20th century and was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world
  3. 5. won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls
  4. 6. was a principal spokesman of the Nation of Islam during the 1950s
  5. 7. was a famous boxer, philanthropist, and social activist
  6. 8. was the NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi
  7. 10. was the first African American student who went to a white elementary school in 1960
  8. 11. refused to go to the back of the bus