Across
- 4. first black actor to play Shakespeare’s Othello,on Broadway
- 5. The first great Mesoamerican civilization
- 7. Congolese independence leader and first democratically-elected leader of Congo,as Prime Minister,at the age of 35
- 9. Considered to be one of the most prominent Afrocentric scholars by some in the black nationalist community
- 10. rejected derogatory labels such as,”Black” “Colored”, and “Negro”. Also urged Americans of all races to reject hate, and embrace love.
Down
- 1. First African-American candidate for a major party’s nomination for president of the United States in 1972
- 2. One of the first African-American to receive a doctorate in chemistry; first African-American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences
- 3. Practice of marking a red line on a map to delineate an area where banks would not make loans; most frequently discriminated areas were black inner-city neighborhoods
- 6. Principal representative of black resistance to slavery during the period of colonial Brazil
- 8. Best African-American pitcher of the first decade of the