Black History Makers

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Across
  1. 4. first Black Academy Award winner
  2. 6. she refused to give her seat up on a bus in Montgomery, AL before Rosa Parks
  3. 7. her cervical cancer cells are still assisting researchers today
  4. 8. invented the three light traffic system
  5. 9. famous French entertainer
  6. 10. only figure skater to land a one-legged backflip at the Olympics
  7. 12. fastest rapper in Broadway history
  8. 14. first Black Congresswoman
  9. 15. Cincinnati's first Black mayor
  10. 18. famous Harlem Renaissance poet
  11. 19. one of the first students to attend a desegregated school
Down
  1. 1. female artist with the most Grammy nominations (41)
  2. 2. first Black female millionaire
  3. 3. first Black Best Actress winner at the Academy Awards
  4. 5. first woman to land 3 number one Billboard songs in a single year
  5. 11. first Black filmmaker
  6. 13. soprano famous for her whistle tones, Maya Rudolph's mother
  7. 16. first Black female pilot
  8. 17. Olympic track star