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