2023 DEI&B Black History Month Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. The first Black woman ever named to the cabinet of a U.S. president
  2. 5. In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter
  3. 8. The first African American to receive a Ph. D. from Harvard University in 1895 (Last name)
  4. 9. The first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
  5. 11. (Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr., the first Black American astronaut in space, was a member of this mission
  6. 12. Richard Wright wrote this book in 1940, widely known for its raw depiction of racial injustice
  7. 13. The first Black athlete to win an Olympic gold medal
  8. 14. Became an official federal holiday in 2021, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S.
  9. 15. Human rights activist and American Muslim minister
Down
  1. 1. Rosa Parks’ occupation at the time of her historic refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger
  2. 2. Dr. Hale Williams established the first African-American hospital in this city
  3. 3. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) launched these in 1961 to test local compliance with federal orders to desegregate interstate bus terminals
  4. 6. The first African American woman elected to Congress in 1968
  5. 7. The first African American to win a singles title at Wimbledon
  6. 10. Led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom through underground railroad