BBN - Black History Month Crossword

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  1. 1. First African American to play major league baseball
  2. 3. Union Major General that delivered General Order No. 3 to last slave colony in 1865
  3. 6. Nickname for the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American piolets in WWII
  4. 7. African American inventor of the three traffic light signal
  5. 9. Holiday that commemorates the ending of slavery
  6. 12. Chef and restaurant owner who invented the potato chip
  7. 13. African American sprinter who broke three world records and won three gold medals
  8. 17. First Black woman in space
  9. 18. February 1, 1960 four students sat down at a “whites only” counter in Woolworth’s store and refuse to leave in what city?
  10. 20. First Black person in space logging over 688 astronaut hours
  11. 21. First Black woman elected to Congress
  12. 23. First Black woman to earn a degree from a four year college
  13. 24. Youngest inaugural poet in US history
  14. 26. Co-inventor of IBM’s original personal computer
  15. 27. First African American US Marshal
  16. 28. First African American presidential appointee and co-designer of Washington D.C.
  17. 29. African American track star who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
  18. 32. First African American elected to the US Senate. (representing the state of Mississippi)
  19. 35. The Location of “Black Wall Street”
  20. 37. First sanctioned town for freed African American slaves.
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  1. 2. Quaker who created the first school for African Americans
  2. 4. Site where the first National Negro Convention was held
  3. 5. First colony to ban slavery
  4. 8. First African American know to be born in the 13 colonies
  5. 9. First African American to win the heavy weight championship in boxing
  6. 10. Nickname given to cells taken from Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman that scientists have used to test the effects of drugs for cancer patients
  7. 11. First Black American to host a TV Show
  8. 14. First African American to pass the bar and become a lawyer in 1854.
  9. 15. First black gymnast to win a gold medal in the Olympics
  10. 16. College that Martin Luther King received his undergraduate education
  11. 18. First African American tennis player to win the Grand Slam in 1956.
  12. 19. First African American billionaire
  13. 20. First African American to win a Pulitzer prize
  14. 22. Known as the Father of Black History
  15. 25. First all-black township in California
  16. 30. First African American to publish a book of poetry
  17. 31. First woman arrested in Montgomery for not giving up her seat, before Rosa Parks
  18. 33. City where “Bloody Sunday” took place where 600 marchers attempted to cross the Edmund Pettis Bridge
  19. 34. African American inventor who created over 500 new products from the peanut and sweet potato
  20. 36. Leading researcher in the field of blood plasma preservation, establishing the use of blood banks early in WWII