2022 black history month

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Across
  1. 2. Olympic boxing champion in 1960, Presidential medal of freedom recipient, civil rights activist.
  2. 4. The first African American woman to travel into space.
  3. 5. Musical hits include “I Shot the Sheff”. “No Woman No Cry”, and “Three little birds”.
  4. 6. Author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”. Civil rights activist, and first black woman featured on the US quarter.
  5. 8. Agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts.
  6. 9. Female physicist and mathematician whose calculations were critical to NASA missions sending astronauts into orbit and to the moon.
Down
  1. 1. first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), a precursor of the U.S. Air Force.
  2. 3. Authored the book "Becoming", which was the best selling hardcover book of 2018.
  3. 4. Educational activist, Advisor to two Presidents of the United States (Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman).
  4. 7. Prominent poet during the Harlem Renaissance who many credit for the creation of “Jazz Poetry”