I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: Crossword

Horizontal Words

1. her father took her and Bailey to live there with their mother and her family (7)
3. very beautiful lady, educated, from a well-known family, laughed all the time (6)
5. a gift from Mother for Christmas (13)
7. her father, spoke very proper English, had a nice car (9)
9. "aristocrat of black Stamps", refined like a white person (16)
11. her brother, described as very beautiful (8)
13. fat reverend she and Bailey hated (12)
15. foreman, sexually assaulted her (9)

Vertical Words

2. very pleasant woman, patient, always smiling, but screamed a lot (9)
4. she moved there to live with her mother after several instances of racism (12)
6. blacks in the south called sensitive, a little sick, or in delicate health (13)
8. very loud and passionate lady at church, "Preach it!" (12)
10. the small town she spent her early years (6)
12. her and Bailey's crippled uncle in Stamps (6)
14. her very religious grandmother (5)
16. Bailey's first love (5)