Black History Month

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Across
  1. 4. Who wrote the best-selling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
  2. 5. A famous speech in which abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth asked...
  3. 8. The first African-American woman elected to the House of Representatives.
  4. 10. This eminent writer and Howard graduate has won a Nobel Prize in Literature, a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and more.
  5. 11. The First man to ever set three world records in a single Olympic Games.
Down
  1. 1. What was Muhammad Ali's original name?
  2. 2. The neighbourhood in New York where an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion, also called the birth of the "New Negro Movement", took place.
  3. 3. A knee ended his football career; but not because of any injury.
  4. 6. First African-American woman to go to space, aboard the space shuttle Endeavor.
  5. 7. This prominent black artist's work can be recognized in part by his stylistically enlarged representation of the hands in his distinctive portraits of African-Americans.
  6. 9. He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father.