Black History Month Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 5. physicist and mathematician who helped launch the first use of digital electronic computers at NASA
  2. 8. hailed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as “the most gifted instrumentalist of all time”
  3. 9. American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball
  4. 11. known for writing "I Know why the Caged Bird Sings"
  5. 12. sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song
  6. 13. patrolled African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality
  7. 14. known as the "Queen of Soul"
  8. 15. pioneer of modern-day medicine when a doctor stole her cells in 1951
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  1. 1. American composer and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 until his death
  2. 2. "theater's poet of Black America''
  3. 3. first African-American president of the United States
  4. 4. the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School
  5. 6. the most financially successful Black painter in US history
  6. 7. well known for her anti-lynching efforts
  7. 10. 14 year boy from Chicago who was lynched