Black History 24 Figures Crossword

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  1. 3. Athlete who won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
  2. 4. Poet and author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
  3. 5. First African-American woman to hold a pilot's license.
  4. 7. Civil Rights organizer for the student group SNCC.
  5. 9. The 6-year-old who integrated a New Orleans school.
  6. 11. First Black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize.
  7. 12. Activist who believed in defense by any means necessary.
  8. 13. Abolitionist who escaped slavery and ran a newspaper.
  9. 15. Famous poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
  10. 16. First Black player in Major League Baseball.
  11. 21. Known as the Moses of the Underground Railroad.
  12. 22. Trumpet player and the King of Jazz.
  13. 23. Medical pioneer of the Blood Bank and plasma storage.
  14. 24. Boxer who refused to go to the Vietnam War.
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  1. 1. Filmmaker who owns a massive production studio in Atlanta.
  2. 2. First African-American woman to earn a medical degree.
  3. 6. First African-American Supreme Court Justice.
  4. 8. Scientist who taught farmers to grow peanuts for self-sufficiency.
  5. 10. Founder of the Tuskegee Institute who believed education was key.
  6. 14. Activist who escaped slavery and spoke Dutch.
  7. 17. Civil rights icon who started a city-wide bus boycott.
  8. 18. The second African-American to serve on the Supreme Court.
  9. 19. NBA legend who was once cut from his high school team.
  10. 20. The first African-American President of the United States.