Black History Month Challenge

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Across
  1. 2. Dedicated to treating and curing blindness, she was the first Black female doctor who was awarded a medical patent
  2. 7. This renowned author won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993
  3. 8. This civil rights activist founded America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee
  4. 10. He created "The Green Book", a travel guide to help African American's safely navigate across the U.S. in the early twentieth century
  5. 11. She was the first Black woman to hold a pilot license
Down
  1. 1. She founded Poro, the first global Black beauty and hair-care brand, started her own cosmetology school, and became a millionaire
  2. 2. She is the most decorated female gymnast in America
  3. 3. She was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize. She was awarded for her poetry book, Annie Allen.
  4. 4. This mathematician did the orbital calculations (without a computer) that NASA needed to launch their first crewed space flights
  5. 5. This jazz singer was born in Milwaukee and won seven Grammy Awards total
  6. 6. This poet, author, and activist penned the influential phrase “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”
  7. 9. He is the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcom X