Black History Month 2026
Across
- 2. the first Black female doctor to receive a medical patent for her invention of a laser cataract treatment.
- 4. became a disability activist after she was denied a degree in speech therapy explicitly for being a Black woman with a disability.
- 5. he introduced the intradermal vaccination technique for smallpox.
- 7. the first woman to perform open-heart surgery in 1943.
- 8. the first Black female neurosurgeon.
Down
- 1. the first Black woman to work as a professionally trained nurse in the U.S.
- 3. the first Black female dentist in the US.
- 6. the first Black professor at Harvard.