Black History Crossword

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  1. 4. Rosa Parks is known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus _________
  2. 7. Madam CJ Walker released her line of hair products called Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair ______
  3. 8. First black owned hotel in Delray was the La ________ Hotel
  4. 10. Bessie Blount Griffin created an apparatus that let ________ feed themselves after working with soldiers during WWII
  5. 12. _______ High School was the first black high school in Palm Beach County
  6. 14. Alice Coachman became the first black woman to win an Olympic ______ Medal
  7. 19. Sister Rosetta Tharpe is known as the ______ of rock and roll.
  8. 21. Louis Armstrong was an influential player from New Orleans
  9. 22. comic book company created by black artists and writers in 1993
  10. 24. Mary J Van Brittan Brown created the first________(Abbreviated)
  11. 25. 7 day celebration in the U.S. that recognizes African heritage
  12. 27. Mae Carol Jemison was the first black woman to travel in_____.
Down
  1. 1. Dr. Alice Frederick _________ owned a home that was open to the youth seeking guidance, intellectuals and black individuals. The home is known as the oldest continuously black owned home in West Palm Beach
  2. 2. Eva Black was West Palm Beach's first black _______
  3. 3. Osbourne _____ Addition was a neighborhood south of Lake Worth legally designated as a a black neighborhood in Palm Beach County
  4. 5. Solomon David Spady was Delray's _________ principal
  5. 6. Coretta Scott______ was an activist who helped found many organizations, such as the Black Leadership Forum, the National Black Coalition for Voter Participation, and the Black Leadership Roundtable
  6. 9. First all-black city incorporated in FL
  7. 11. These 26 black artists created Florida folk art from the 1950s to 80s.
  8. 13. Harriet______ was an escaped slave who made around thirteen trips to rescue over sixty slaves
  9. 15. Located near Lake Osborne, the _______ School was the first black school in Lake Worth
  10. 16. Zora Neale Hurston established a school of ________ arts at Bethune-Cookman
  11. 17. Appearing as a mutant that controls the weather in X-men. One of the first black comic book characters
  12. 18. Mary Mcleod Bethune established a college in
  13. 20. Frederick Douglas published an abolitionist newsletter, The ______ Star
  14. 23. George Washington Carver developed more than 300 food, industrial and commercial products from_____
  15. 26. Alice_______ wrote the Color Purple.