Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. R&B
  2. 5. Civil Rights Leader (initials)
  3. 6. "Strange Fruit" performer
  4. 8. Braids that were used for slaves to communicate escape routes
  5. 9. Josephine ___, well known for being a dancer, she later became a French spy during WW2
  6. 12. master jazz trumpeter, Satchmo
Down
  1. 1. National abolitionist leader
  2. 3. a founder of the NAACP, W.E.B. _____
  3. 4. First female self-made millionaire in America
  4. 7. a female founder of the NAACP, investigative journalist, and suffragist
  5. 10. Natural hair, worn as a halo of curls
  6. 11. Music genre that originated in New Orleans