Black History Month Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. First female African-American Secretary of State
  2. 6. Founded the Tuskegee Airmen
  3. 9. Passed the Affordable Care Act
  4. 11. Journalist who campaigned against lynching
  5. 12. Wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
  6. 13. First American slave to have work published
  7. 14. Famous for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus
  8. 15. Famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech
  9. 16. Went to trial to sue for his freedom
  10. 18. The first African-American woman to star in a motion picture
  11. 19. Founder of Tuskegee University
Down
  1. 1. Helped slaves escape via the Underground Railroad
  2. 3. First African-American Secretary of State
  3. 4. Known as "The Peanut Man"
  4. 5. Wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
  5. 6. "King of the Blues"
  6. 7. Founded the "Black Star Line"
  7. 8. Led the "Harlem Renaissance"
  8. 10. Once said, “We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.”
  9. 17. The first African-American to earn a Ph. D. from Harvard