Black History Month

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Across
  1. 3. Co-Founder of the NAACP
  2. 4. Pittsburgh professional baseball team's negro league baseball team
  3. 5. Leader of the UNIA and Back to Africa Movement
  4. 6. 1963 protest where MLK Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech
  5. 10. Hughes Poet from the Harlem renaissance
  6. 11. A cultural explosion of black art,music,literature,and intellectual thought centered in Harlem,New York.1920s-1930s.
Down
  1. 1. First black woman to win a nobel prize in literature
  2. 2. Pittsburgh region that famous playwright,August Wilson, based a majority of this plays in
  3. 7. The number of the amendment that officially freed African Americans from slavery
  4. 8. Celebration of the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
  5. 9. Investigative journalist who fought against lynching