black history month puzzle

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  1. 3. X,He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam.
  2. 5. Garvey,He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
  3. 7. T. Washington,an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States.
  4. 8. Wheatley,She was enslaved by the Wheatley family of Boston.
  5. 12. Obama, first black president of the U.S
  6. 14. Baker, was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent
  7. 17. Luther King Jr, i had a dream speech
  8. 18. Hughes,One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry
  9. 19. Scott, sued for his freedom and that of his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, and their two daughters
Down
  1. 1. American sociologist, socialist, historian
  2. 2. Tubman,freed slaves through the underground railroad
  3. 4. Angelou,was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
  4. 6. Rice,professor who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
  5. 9. B. Wells,She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
  6. 10. Neale Hurston,The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God
  7. 11. O. Davis,He was the first black Brigadier general in the United States Air Force
  8. 12. introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending
  9. 13. Parks,refused to give up seat
  10. 15. Washington Carver,developed approximately 300 products made from peanuts
  11. 16. Powell,diplomat and retired four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005.