CREI Black History Month Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. Inventor of the traffic light
  2. 7. Mathematician and astronomer who surveyed present-day District of Columbia
  3. 9. Inventor of automatic lubrication systems for steam engines
  4. 13. Acclaimed fastest woman in the world in the 1960s, she became the first American women to win three gold medals in a single Olympic game
  5. 16. Randolph Labor leader instrumental in World War Two ban on discrimination in U.S. defense industries
  6. 18. His murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked the largest protest movement in U.S. history.
  7. 19. A leader of the 1969 Stonewall uprising which transformed the fight for LGBT rights in the United States
  8. 20. King Jr Reverend, Nobel Prize winner, and Civil Rights Movement icon
  9. 21. Black holiday celebrated from December 26 to January 1 that is based on seven key principles.
  10. 22. This Alabama city was an important site in the struggle for equal voting rights
  11. 23. Early advocate of school desegregation, abolitionist, and suffragist. In addition to Abraham Lincoln, February was chosen as Black History Month in memory of his birth month.
  12. 25. 19th century abolitionist and leader of the Underground Railroad
  13. 27. First woman to charter a bank in the United States
  14. 29. 15-year-old girl arrested for refusing to give up her seat nine months before Rosa Parks’ infamous case.
  15. 30. Civil rights activist, suffragette, journalist, and founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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  1. 1. Jean Baptiste-Point du Sable founded this “windy” North American city
  2. 2. Investigative journalist, anti-lynching activist, and author of The Red Record
  3. 4. Father of the blood bank
  4. 5. Nobel Prize-winning diplomat who mediated the first Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  5. 6. First free Black republic in the Western Hemisphere
  6. 8. Black and Gay advocate who authored the novel If Beale Street Could Talk
  7. 10. Carver 20th century environmentalist and agricultural scientist who developed over 100 food recipes using peanuts
  8. 11. Inventor of the hairbrush with synthetic bristles and suffragette
  9. 12. Olympic gold medalist who shattered Hitler’s myth of Aryan superiority at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
  10. 14. Successfully argued the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 and became the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice in 1967
  11. 15. Inventor of the modern elevator
  12. 17. Harlem Renaissance author, anthropologist, and filmmaker best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God
  13. 24. Union activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
  14. 26. This city, also known as Motown, was the epicenter of commercial soul music in the post-war period
  15. 28. William Alexander Leidesdorff co-founded this Bay Area city