Black History Month TDP DEI

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Across
  1. 2. What dance style and music genre, originating in Harlem, New York in the 1920s?
  2. 4. Historic NYC theatre famous for the black performers it hosted
  3. 5. Toni who was the first black American to be awarded a Nobel prize in literature
  4. 9. Garrett Morgan patented the first traffic light featuring this third color
  5. 10. Lonnie Johnson invented this water gun toy while working at JPL in 1990
  6. 12. Simone Biles is the most decorated sportsperson in which sport?
  7. 13. Aretha Franklin: "Queen of ____"
  8. 16. _____ Renaissance: Period of flourishing arts named after a neighborhood
  9. 17. _____ v Board of Education: court case that ruled school segregation unconstitutional
  10. 18. Mae who was the first African American woman to go to space
Down
  1. 1. “Brotherly Love”: Poem by Langston _____
  2. 3. abbreviation for the English dialect which emerged out of African American communities
  3. 4. Maya who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
  4. 6. Jesse who was "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history" and won 4 medals at the 1936 Olympics
  5. 7. Fitzgerald who was the first African American woman to win a Grammy Award?
  6. 8. "Black Wall Street" was the nickname for a prosperous area in this city in 1921 before its destruction in the namesake massacre
  7. 11. This state was the first to elect a black governor in 1989
  8. 14. Alice Ball discovered the first effective treatment for _____
  9. 15. "The _____ Book": travel guide used by African Americans between 1936 and 1966