CREI Black History Month Crossword Puzzle

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