Black History Month: Famous Pittsburghers' Last Names

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Across
  1. 3. Hill District Photographer nicknamed "Teenie"
  2. 4. This Puerto Rican baseball star sported number 21 on his Pirates jersey
  3. 8. You know what it is! This rapper has a mixtape named for his alma mater, Taylor Allderdice
  4. 10. This Hill District playwright received an honorary diploma from Carnegie Library, and it's still hanging in the first floor reading room!
  5. 11. This “Mean” defensive tackler slammed a Coca-Cola in one gulp and took the Steelers to the Superbowl four times
Down
  1. 1. Keep Pittsburgh Dope street photographer documents the thriving culture of the city.
  2. 2. Revered as the first African-American Woman Cartoonist
  3. 5. A Suffragette who worked as the NAACP’s first field secretary in 1930 and assisted in recruiting Thurgood Marshall, who would later become a Supreme Court Justice.
  4. 6. The second Black baseball player to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, played for the Homestead Grays in the Negro Leagues.
  5. 7. The first Black person elected Mayor of Pittsburgh is the current Mayor, elected in 2022.
  6. 9. In 2020 he unofficially broke the world record for Longest Rap Marathon, freestyling 31 hours.