African American History Month

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Across
  1. 4. first black servicemen to serve as military aviators in the U.S. armed forces
  2. 5. first black field officer in the United States Army
  3. 7. father was one of the plaintiffs in the case of Brown v. Board of Education
  4. 9. first Colonel, to command Camp Lejeune, NC
  5. 11. the first African American in space
  6. 12. first African American to become a four-star general in the United States Army
  7. 15. role as an advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave African American’s an advocate in government.
  8. 16. first female self-made millionaire in America, she became one of the wealthiest African American women in the country
  9. 17. founded the Tuskegee Institute
  10. 19. Flipper first African-American to graduate from the United States Military Academy
  11. 20. enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
  12. 21. one of the highest-ranking black officers in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II
  13. 22. led his squad to destroy a group of enemy soldiers; posthumously received the Medal of Honor
  14. 23. United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor, for his valorous actions during World Word II
Down
  1. 1. American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
  2. 2. American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.
  3. 3. his 1845 autobiography, became a bestseller, influential in promoting the cause of abolition of slavery
  4. 6. One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the Civil rights movement
  5. 8. first African American to reach the rank of four-star general in the US Air Force
  6. 10. authored the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman
  7. 11. first female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party
  8. 13. first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi se after the intervention of the federal government
  9. 14. first black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest and among the first group of women to become priests in this church.
  10. 18. he was the first African American to earn a doctorate at the University of Berlin and Harvard
  11. 24. first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South