Black People & Events - 1940s

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Across
  1. 3. The ___ V Campaign was a slogan meaning victory.
  2. 6. First Black athlete to play in the major leagues (Last).
  3. 7. Black athlete who played in the Negro and Major Leagues (Last).
  4. 11. Saxophonist with the album "Giant Steps" (Last).
Down
  1. 1. Made songs like "I'm your Hoochie Coochie man" (Last)
  2. 2. Singer and actress who performed in Stormy Weather
  3. 4. Duke Ellington's first name
  4. 5. ___ Black Barons, a Negro League which played it's home games at Rickwood Field.
  5. 8. Poet who published A Street In Bronzeville (First).
  6. 9. The first African American woman to get a Phd. in chemistry (First).
  7. 10. Patton's ___ was a military group in WWII containing African americans.