Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. The first black woman to travel into space
  2. 4. Wrote "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
  3. 6. First black woman elected to the United States Congress
  4. 7. First African-American Justice of the Supreme Court
  5. 9. Arrested at the age of 15, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
  6. 10. An escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker
  7. 11. Four-time gold medalist in the 1936 Olympic Games
Down
  1. 1. His most famous work is his “I Have a Dream” speech delivered in 1963
  2. 3. First female self-made millionaire in America
  3. 5. First African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era
  4. 8. Nicknamed "The Empress of the Blues"