Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. State Black Wall Street is located
  2. 5. Meredith Gourdine invented the method of converting gas into _____
  3. 7. In 2021, federally recognized historical event
  4. 10. Inventor of 3-way traffic light
  5. 11. Worked with MLK Jr on civil rights
  6. 12. Civil rights and voting rights activist (Good Trouble)
  7. 13. Jackie Robinson, first AA to play major league _________
  8. 15. In 1967, the US legalized interracial ________
  9. 18. Ida B. Wells lost her teaching job for refusing to give up her ____
  10. 19. Last name of the first Black self-made millionaire
  11. 20. Practice of denying the right to vote
  12. 21. First US HBCU to officially issue degrees to AAs
  13. 24. State with most black institutions of higher learning
  14. 26. Last name of rapper who won a Pulitzer Prize
  15. 27. Author of “Lift Every Voice and Sing
  16. 28. NASA Scientist Valerie Thomas inventor of ______ technology
Down
  1. 1. Founder of the National Council of Negro Women in 1935
  2. 3. Alabama city, major demonstration against segregation
  3. 4. Travel guide for AAs published 1936-1966
  4. 6. Black pilots who flew during WWII _____ Airmen
  5. 7. First AA woman to go to space
  6. 8. First AA appointed Supreme Court Justice
  7. 9. Gordon Parks was the first AA to direct a major ______
  8. 14. Dancer/Choreographer, founded dance company in 1957
  9. 16. National organization founded on Lincoln’s birthday
  10. 17. First AA woman US Supreme Court justice
  11. 20. Initials of organization for nonviolent protests
  12. 22. Shirley Jackson’s telecommunications research produced call waiting and _______ ID.
  13. 23. First Black woman elected to US Congress
  14. 25. Created Black History Month