Black History Month Crossword

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Across
  1. 6. Alabama city for major demonstration against segregation _____
  2. 7. "Good Trouble" civil and voting rights activist (Last name) _____
  3. 9. State Black Wall Street is located ______
  4. 11. Stage name of female rapper Dana Owens (Last name) _____
  5. 13. Initials of the national organization founded on Lincoln's birthday
  6. 14. Inventor of the 3-way traffic signal (Last name)_____
  7. 16. First AA woman US Supreme Court justice (2 words) _____
  8. 21. Shirley Jackson's telecommunications research produced call waiting and _____ ID.
  9. 23. Initials of organization for non-violent protests _____
  10. 24. Dancer/choreographer, founded dance company in 1957 (Last name) _____
  11. 26. NASA Scientist Valerie Thomas inventor of _____ technology (3 words)
  12. 27. Travel guide for African Americans published 1936-1966 (2 words) _____
  13. 29. In 2021, what historical event became federally recognized? _____
  14. 31. Black pilots who flew during WWII _____
  15. 33. First African American appointed Supreme Court Justice (Last name) _____
  16. 35. State with the most Black institutions of higher learning _____
Down
  1. 1. Meredith Gourdine invented the method of converting gas into _____
  2. 2. Civil rights activist, 2013 Presidential Medal of Honor (Last name) _____
  3. 3. Historian who created Black History Month (Last name) _____
  4. 4. Jackie Robinson - first African American to play major league _____
  5. 5. Shipping company owned and operated entirely by blacks _____
  6. 8. Author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (Last name) _____
  7. 10. Practice of denying people the right to vote _____
  8. 12. Rapper who won a Pulitzer Prize (Last name) _____
  9. 15. First Black woman elected to US Congress _____
  10. 17. First African American woman to win a Grammy Award (2 words) _____
  11. 18. Informal system that helped enslaved persons escape to the North. Undergound _____
  12. 19. First Black self-made millionaire (Last name)_____
  13. 20. First African American woman to go to space _____
  14. 22. Founder of the National Council of Negro Women in 1935 (Last name) _____
  15. 25. First African American to win a Nobel Prize in physics (2 words) _____
  16. 28. Ida B. Wells lost her teaching job for refusing to give up her _____
  17. 30. Otis Boykin invented the unit for the artificial _____ stimulator
  18. 32. In 1967, the US legalized interracial______
  19. 34. Gordon Parks, first African American to direct a major _____