The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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  1. 5. Home of Outkast, Migos, Gucci Mane, etc. and the 1996 Olympics.
  2. 6. This city’s baseball team just changed their name from the Indians to the Guardians. The only city with a NFL team named after a color.
  3. 8. The capital of West Virginia and a SC city that houses Fort Sumter where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
  4. 9. Keep _____ weird. Home of ______ City Limits: the longest running music series in television history, now a music festival.
  5. 10. A veteran LB screamed his city's name when his team beat Colin Kaepernick’s 49ers in the Super Bowl in 2012 when the lights went out. Also the birthplace of the greatest national anthem: The Star Spangled Banner. The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum was the country’s first wax museum of African American history.
  6. 13. The Twin Cities: St. Paul & _______.
  7. 15. Houses the Statue of Liberty and Guitos
  8. 17. Brown v. Board of Education of ______ was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional overturning Plessy v. Ferguson. Capital city.
  9. 18. Extends further west than any other capital city.
  10. 20. Most visited zoo in the U.S. located in Balboa Park and home of the Hazy IPA.
  11. 24. Everywhere you look. There’s a heart, I hear you’re holdin onto.
  12. 26. If Stuff White People Like were a show it would be _________ia. Probably Trump’s and the National Guard's least favorite city during the BLM Movement in Summer 2020.
  13. 30. Nearly half of this state’s population resides in this northernmost city.
  14. 31. Motor City is the birthplace of Motown Records.
  15. 32. Amazon City
  16. 34. MLK Jr., John Lewis, and thousands of others marched from Selma to ___________ inspiring the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Capital City.
  17. 35. We have a problem.
  18. 36. Home of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Hot Chicken
  19. 41. First public university in the U.S.
  20. 42. Violent storms and rising sea levels have caused this city to bury bodies above ground and an all charter school education system.
  21. 43. This Spring Break City just announced a curfew and state of emergency after a slew of shootings this past month, but their hometown hero Ketanji Brown Jackson just became a Supreme Court Justice.
  22. 44. The Brewers baseball team gets its name from being the home of Miller and Pabst Blue Ribbon. Dwight Hopkins favorite beer is _______’s Best. The city has only had 4 mayors. The first city to elect a socialist mayor in 1910, succeeded by Daniel Hoan who held office from 1916-1940.
  23. 45. Home of the Masters golf tournament in Georgia shares the name of the capital city of ME.
  24. 47. This city’s university is known as the pioneer of online education.
  25. 49. Home of Bruce Lee, MC Hammer, Zandaya, and Tom Hanks. It's also home to the third-highest concentration of lesbian residents in the US; a melting pot within a melting pot. Founded the Black Panther Party. Home of the best fans in the NFL.
  26. 51. Carrie Underwood will bust out your headlights with this city’s most famous export if you cheat on her.
  27. 53. Most famous for being in two states at once.
  28. 55. The name of the Lost Colony and the city where Isaac Hopkins was conceived.
  29. 56. City of Oaks is a capital city known for J.Cole's Dreamville.
  30. 57. I’m deadass- That little pie shop down by the crusty bodega on 15th and 7th was dumb good. Home of Jane Jacobs, whose book is the title of this crossword.
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  1. 1. Michelle Wu was elected mayor in 2021, winning with 64% of the vote, becoming the first woman, first person of color, and first Asian American (Taiwanese) elected to serve as the Mayor of this city known for their baked beans.
  2. 2. Houses the largest office building in the world that was targeted on 911. Michelle Rhee (TFA Alumna), the first Asian American (Korean) public schools chancellor of this city who closed 24 schools without public hearings and proposed student performance based pay for teachers.
  3. 3. Ohio’s state capital named after this villainous voyager.
  4. 4. Home of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, Bank of America, Lowes, Bojangles, and Krispy Kreme.
  5. 7. The Horse Capital of the World is home of Drake’s favorite college basketball team. Also a North Carolinian city known for its BBQ.
  6. 11. Home of the Little League World Series and this is what Peyton Manning yells before he hikes the football
  7. 12. Tinker vs. ______________ ruled that the suspension of students by a public school for wearing black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War violated their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech.
  8. 14. The starting point of the Lewis and Clark expedition and location the Dred Scott. Vs. Sandford case.
  9. 16. The 2016 ______ Night Club shooting was the deadliest incident in US history of violence against the LGBTQ community and the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman until the Las Vegas shooting nearly one year later.
  10. 19. Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were victims of the deadliest school shooting in US history and launched the Never Again movement to influence Florida’s gun control laws.
  11. 21. Location of the Battle of the Alamo of the Mexican-American War won by the Mexican forces who killed all of the involved.
  12. 22. Home of the only other 500 mile race that’s not in Daytona.
  13. 23. Houses “America’s Team” and the site of JFK’s assassination and where he died in (19 Down) Hospital.
  14. 25. The City of Angels hosts the Oscars every year.
  15. 27. The only city in the world where you can see the Statue of Liberty and The Eiffel Tower in the same day.
  16. 28. Home of the students who lead one of the most famous non violent diner sit ins during the Civil Rights Movement which lead to the Woolworth Company removing their racial segregation policy.
  17. 29. the only state capital with 3 words
  18. 33. The Putt Putt capital of the world that boasts more golf courses in a concentrated area than anywhere in the United States. Featured on Netflix’s Tiger King and HBO’s Eastbound & Down.
  19. 37. Home of Graceland: The home of Elvis, BB King, and Johnny Cash. Inspired James Baldwin’s book, now a major motion picture, If Beale Street Could Talk.
  20. 38. It’s always sunny in the city of Rocky, the Declaration of Independence, and the jawn on the hunnid.
  21. 39. Wisconsin’s capital named after the fourth U.S. president.
  22. 40. They put fucking pickle spears on their hotdogs.
  23. 46. The Watsons go to _______ 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis tells the historical fiction story of an African American family moving from Flint that became victims of the white supremacist terroist bombing of 16th street Baptist Church
  24. 48. Steel City and The City of Bridges inspired Wiz Khalifa’s Black and Yellow.
  25. 50. Nicknamed the Mile High City because it sits at an elevation of exactly one mile, or 5280 feet.
  26. 52. Home of NC Mutual, once the largest black owned life insurance company in the US.
  27. 54. Former capital of the confederacy.