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- 4. Initials of organization for nonviolent protests
- 5. Otis Boykin invented the unit for the artificial _____ stimulator
- 6. Historical event became federally recognized in 2021
- 13. 1st African American woman to win Grammy Award (2 words)
- 14. Name of National Council of Negro Women founder
- 16. Civil rights activist who received 2013 Presidential Medal of Honor
- 19. In 1967, the US legalized interracial _______
- 20. Historian who created Black History Month
- 21. Shipping company owned and operated by blacks (3 words)
- 22. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” author
- 24. Inventor of 3-way traffic signal
- 25. Alabama city for major demonstration against segregation
- 28. Gordon Parks: 1st African American to direct a major ____
- 29. Name of female rapper Dana Owens
- 32. Jackie Robinson: 1st African American to play major league ____
- 34. 1st African American woman elected to US Congress
- 35. 1st black self-made millionaire
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- 1. 1st African American to win Nobel Prize in physics (2 words)
- 2. Meredith Gourdine invented method of converting gas into___
- 3. Underground ______, informal system that helped enslaved persons escape
- 7. African American woman US Supreme Court Justice (2 words)
- 8. Dancer/choreographer who founded dance company in 1957
- 9. State with most Black institutions of higher learning
- 10. NASA Scientist Valerie Thomas: invented _____ technology (1 number 1 letter 1 word)
- 11. Practice of denying the right to vote
- 12. 1st African American woman to go to space
- 15. Ida B. Wells lost teaching job for refusing to give up her _____
- 17. 1st African American appointed to Supreme Court
- 18. Name for Black pilots who flew during WWII
- 23. Travel guide for African Americans published 1936-66 (2 words)
- 26. State Black Wall Street is located
- 27. Shirley Jackson’s research produced call waiting & ______ ID
- 30. Initials of national organization founded on Lincoln’s birthday
- 31. Rapper who won Pulitzer Prize
- 33. Name of “Good Trouble” civil/voting rights activist