Black History Crossword III

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  1. 2. First name of “The Real McCoy”, He invented an automatic lubricator for oiling the steam engines of locomotives and ships, patenting it in 1872 as "Improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines"
  2. 4. On 1 December 1955 she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger.
  3. 5. Nickname of Louis Armstrong, the American trumpeter and vocalist.
  4. 6. the largest historically black college or university (HBCU) in the United States
  5. 10. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  6. 13. A founding sorority of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, is the sister organization to PhiBetSigma.
  7. 14. One of his most notable inventions was a type of three-way traffic lights.
  8. 15. Investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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  1. 1. Home of the Sonic Boom of the South
  2. 3. First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the world
  3. 7. As a six year old she advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South
  4. 8. First name of the “Queen of Jazz”
  5. 9. American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist, founder and long-time president of what is now Bethune-Cookman University
  6. 11. The first state to ban slavery
  7. 12. Fraternity founded on January 5, 1911, at Indiana University Bloomington, their motto is Achievement in Every Field of Human Endeavor