Black History Figures

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Across
  1. 3. track and field star that won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics
  2. 5. first African American to play in Major League Baseball
  3. 7. the youngest student to attend integrated schools in the south
  4. 8. first woman to hold a pilot’s license
  5. 10. talk show host, TV producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
  6. 12. rescued hundreds of people from slavery using the Underground Railroad
  7. 16. mathematician who helped NASA launch their first flights to the moon
  8. 19. most visible leader of the Civil Rights Movement
  9. 20. singer and performer known as the “King of Pop”
Down
  1. 1. first ballerina to dance for a major classical ballet company
  2. 2. astronaut and first black woman go travel into space
  3. 4. known as the “Peanut Man” because he invented hundreds of products that used peanuts
  4. 6. the first to win the Grand Slam Title
  5. 9. first black president of the United States of America
  6. 11. NBA’s greatest all-time basketball player
  7. 13. poet, dancer, screenwriter, and author
  8. 14. first African American Supreme Court Justice
  9. 15. musician who had an influence on jazz music
  10. 17. the greatest boxer of all time
  11. 18. “First Lady of Civil Rights”; refused to give up her seat to a white man