Black History

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea (6)
  2. 5. The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (plural) (5)
  3. 8. The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca (10)
  4. 9. The slender part of the back (5)
  5. 11. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail (5)

Down

  1. 1. United States astronaut (9)
  2. 2. Thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed (plural) (4)
  3. 4. United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train (5)
  4. 6. Male ruler of a kingdom (4)
  5. 7. United States country singer and songwriter (8)
  6. 10. United States rock singer (5)