Deaf Black History Quiz

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Across
  1. 1. Jones, have joined the National Theater for the Deaf, where he toured nationally with main stage plays and Little Theater of the Deaf for two years
  2. 2. John Pride, is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who is deaf. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
  3. 5. Gordon, is the first deaf Black female attorney in the United States and the first deaf graduate of American University's law school
  4. 6. Hall, who is deaf, plays professionally and has broken down barriers.
  5. 8. Bryan, I am a disability activist and filmmaker
  6. 10. Maxy, I was born with profound hearing loss. When I was very young, my mother and grandmother discovered that I couldn’t hear when they would turn on the vacuum cleaner behind my back
  7. 12. Sutton, will be one of the only reality TV contestants to use ASL while competing
  8. 13. Ridoff, grew up in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park
  9. 14. Smith, comes from a four-generation family of deaf people
Down
  1. 1. McCaskill, deaf at age 5, likely inherited
  2. 3. Eugene Catron, better known by his stage name Harold Foxx, is a comedic, writer, producer, and actor who happens to be Deaf
  3. 4. Lyles, came into the public eye in a 6th episode of the TV ONE true crime story television program
  4. 7. & Heroda, both lost their hearing aged seven on the same day
  5. 9. Sanchez, I am a talented self-taught dancer who went deaf at the age of 4
  6. 11. Ofili, is a Black Deaf actor and filmmaker who become one of the first Black Deaf actors to be animated on a TV show as well as one of the first Black Deaf actors to appear in a video game, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, where she plays Hailey Cooper.