Welcome to The Critic‘s new crossword series! Every week, we are challenging our readers to participate in a crossword puzzle made by our club members. Answer keys will be provided in the next week’s crossword post.
Our first puzzle is in reflection of Black History Month in February. All the answers to this puzzle are the last names of black historical figures.
Download a PDF copy here.
CLUES
Across
- Neo expressionist painter in 1980s
- First black women to graduate yale
- “I had a dream”
- First black women to star in her own show
- “I know why the caged bird sings”
- Track star who won four medals in Berlin Olympics
- First black man to play major league baseball
- The “Queen of Soul”
Down
- Landed a one-footed backflip on ice
- First student to attend desegregated elementary school
- Known as “the greatest”
- Legendary jazz composer and pianist
- Trans woman who fought for LGBT rights
- One of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade
- Won Pulitzer Prize for her poetry
- Founded Kwanzaa
Puzzle created by Carter Lee Toro