Diversion & Inclusion Committee - Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. Jamaican/Rastafarian singer-songwriter credit with popularizing reggae music
  2. 4. Poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. Wrote “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
  3. 7. Jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Known for the albums “Kind of Blue” and “Round About Midnight”
  4. 8. nine-time Olympic gold medalist in sprinting setting two World Records
  5. 9. Sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and author. Co-founder of the Niagara Movement, a group founded in 1905 to fight for equal rights for blacks.
  6. 11. the Court's 96th justice & first African-American justice
  7. 14. Social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who stated, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
  8. 18. Influential author who wrote the 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
  9. 19. South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
  10. 21. Composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra – wrote & performed “Take The ‘A’ Train
  11. 23. Surgeon and medical researcher who researched in the field of blood transfusions
Down
  1. 1. Professional boxer. Often referred to as "The Greatest"
  2. 3. Famous trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and actor. This native son of New Orleans was nicknamed Satchmo.
  3. 5. Alabama native who refused to give up seat on bus in Montgomery
  4. 6. Abolitionist who helped lead Underground Railroad
  5. 10. Delivered I have a Dream Speech on August 23, 1963
  6. 12. Mailed themselves to freedom in a wooden crate.
  7. 13. Jazz singer known for her rendition of the nursery rhyme “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”
  8. 15. Novelist, playwright, and activist. Author of “If Beale Street Could Talk”
  9. 16. Author of science fiction. Multiple winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for her books “Bloodchild” and “Parable of the Sower”
  10. 17. American Poet. Author of A Dream Deferred
  11. 20. Novelist, poet, and activist who wrote, “The Color Purple”
  12. 22. American Muslim minister and human rights activist.