Paragons of West End Mural Cross Word Puzzle
Across
- 4. American historian, a leading 20th century black
- 7. U.S. Radical Republican congressional leader who battled for freedmen’s rights
- 9. famous American pianist, jazz composer, and bandleader
- 10. American singer and actress who first came to fame in the 1940s, whose hits include "Stormy Weather"
- 11. American researcher and historian who between 1971 and 1976, Dr. Brown served as a history professor in the African-American faculty of George Washington University, and became the first full-time black member
- 12. and professor emeritus of history at Howard University
- 13. Washington DC's most dominant brewer
Down
- 1. German settler and founder of the West End/Foggy Bottom area
- 2. American educator whose school for African-Americans, established against considerable opposition, grew to a successful and long-lived teachers institution.
- 3. a columnist for The Washington Post and the deputy editor of the Post's editorial page who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
- 5. associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993. She was only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
- 6. American physician and surgeon who was an authority on the preservation of human blood for transfusions
- 8. American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass