Across
- 2. Jamaican/Rastafarian singer-songwriter credit with popularizing reggae music
- 4. Poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. Wrote “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
- 7. Jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Known for the albums “Kind of Blue” and “Round About Midnight”
- 8. nine-time Olympic gold medalist in sprinting setting two World Records
- 9. Sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and author. Co-founder of the Niagara Movement, a group founded in 1905 to fight for equal rights for blacks.
- 11. the Court's 96th justice & first African-American justice
- 14. Social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who stated, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- 18. Influential author who wrote the 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
- 19. South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
- 21. Composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra – wrote & performed “Take The ‘A’ Train
- 23. Surgeon and medical researcher who researched in the field of blood transfusions
Down
- 1. Professional boxer. Often referred to as "The Greatest"
- 3. Famous trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and actor. This native son of New Orleans was nicknamed Satchmo.
- 5. Alabama native who refused to give up seat on bus in Montgomery
- 6. Abolitionist who helped lead Underground Railroad
- 10. Delivered I have a Dream Speech on August 23, 1963
- 12. Mailed themselves to freedom in a wooden crate.
- 13. Jazz singer known for her rendition of the nursery rhyme “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”
- 15. Novelist, playwright, and activist. Author of “If Beale Street Could Talk”
- 16. Author of science fiction. Multiple winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for her books “Bloodchild” and “Parable of the Sower”
- 17. American Poet. Author of A Dream Deferred
- 20. Novelist, poet, and activist who wrote, “The Color Purple”
- 22. American Muslim minister and human rights activist.