Black History Month Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 5. First female aviator
  2. 7. She performed to 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter 1939. (you can watch it on YouTube)
  3. 8. The "Godmother of Rock-N-Roll."
  4. 11. What disease did Harriet Tubman reportedly suffer from?
  5. 12. The oldest civil rights organization still working today.
Down
  1. 1. What month is Black History Month celebrated?
  2. 2. Said "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?"
  3. 3. The first state to abolish slavery
  4. 4. wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
  5. 6. Won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
  6. 9. A man called Cinque led a successful rebellion aboard this slave ship in the mid-nineteenth century.
  7. 10. Invented the traffic light