black history month

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Across
  1. 2. known as king of the blues
  2. 5. known for her pivotal role in bus boycotting
  3. 6. founder of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
  4. 9. husband to Harriet Robinson Scott
  5. 10. leader of the Harlem Renaissance
  6. 11. 44th president of the US
  7. 14. current director of the Hoover Institution
  8. 16. one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of colored people
  9. 18. published 7 autobiographies
  10. 19. author of how it feels to be colored me
  11. 20. made 13 successful missions to rescue enslaved people
Down
  1. 1. first black American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard
  2. 3. commander of the WWII Tuskegee airmen
  3. 4. gave the "I have a dream" speech
  4. 7. discovered 300+ uses for peanuts
  5. 8. poet who wrote "On Being Brought From Africa to America"
  6. 12. founder of UNIA
  7. 13. 65th US secretary of state
  8. 15. died of a cerebral hemorrhage
  9. 17. assassinated on February 21, 1965