Black History Month Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 5. physicist and mathematician who helped launch the first use of digital electronic computers at NASA
- 8. hailed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as “the most gifted instrumentalist of all time”
- 9. American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball
- 11. known for writing "I Know why the Caged Bird Sings"
- 12. sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song
- 13. patrolled African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality
- 14. known as the "Queen of Soul"
- 15. pioneer of modern-day medicine when a doctor stole her cells in 1951
Down
- 1. American composer and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 until his death
- 2. "theater's poet of Black America''
- 3. first African-American president of the United States
- 4. the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School
- 6. the most financially successful Black painter in US history
- 7. well known for her anti-lynching efforts
- 10. 14 year boy from Chicago who was lynched