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- 4. While Ebony is for the black community in general, this magazine launched in 1970 is geared especially to black women
- 5. In 1919, as part of his Back to Africa plan, Marcus Garvey founded this, contrasting with the name of a British ship line
- 11. This playwright's childhood home in the historically Black Hill District of Pittsburgh has become an arts center
- 13. Echoing a name from about 19 centuries before, Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led a slave revolt in Haiti, was known as "The Black" this
- 14. From around the mid-1910s, families vacationed in "Black Eden", Idlewild in the central region of this state's Lower Peninsula
- 15. Featuring an all-Black cast, songs like "Ease On Down The Road" & the costumes seen here, this 1975 Broadway musical had a rough beginning before becoming a smash hit & winning 7 Tonys
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- 1. In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women
- 2. The 19th of this month is celebrated as the date Texas slaves learned of their freedom in 1865
- 3. Before she made history in Congress, Barbara Jordan was the first Black woman elected to this state's Senate
- 6. In 2022, Erin Jackson made history as the first Black woman to win individual gold at the Winter Olympics, winning for this sport
- 7. Frank Rich wrote you could feel Broadway history being made in this musical about a black female singing group
- 8. In 1869 Ebenezer Bassett, the USA's first black diplomat, became minister to this French-speaking nation
- 9. In July 1881 this famous college opened in Alabama with Booker T. Washington as its first principal
- 10. In 1930 "Don't buy where you can't work" was a slogan of this economic strategy vs. stores that wouldn't hire African Americans
- 12. A prosperous neighborhood known as Black Wall Street was burned in a 1921 massacre in this city that left 10,000 homeless