Black History Month Crossword

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  1. 2. She is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She opened a school for girls in South Africa in 2009.
  2. 4. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
  3. 6. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.
  4. 7. First black woman appointed to the Supreme Court
  5. 14. He was a professional tennis player and the first African-American to win the NCAA singles title (for UCLA in 1975) and his professional career featured 33 titles, including the 1968 US Open, the 1970 Australian Open and 1975 Wimbledon.
  6. 17. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license.
  7. 18. She was the first African-American woman to serve as Secretary of State.
  8. 19. He was the first African-American cardiologist who performed the first successful open-heart surgery who founded Provident Hospital in 1891. It was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States. Provident also had an associated nursing school for African Americans.
  9. 20. She was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  10. 22. On June 30, 2015, she became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in American Ballet Theatre's 75-year history.
  11. 24. She delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women's rights speeches in American history, “Ain't I a Woman?”
  12. 25. He was an American soldier, engineer, former slave and in 1877, the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, earning a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Army.
  13. 27. She became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States.
  14. 28. He was the first African-American president of the United States.
  15. 29. In 1958 she became the first black female engineer at NASA
  16. 30. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992
  17. 31. He was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th century.
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  1. 1. He was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. He was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community.
  2. 3. He published his first book in 1845. He fought throughout most of his career for the abolition of slavery and worked with notable abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and Gerrit Smith.
  3. 5. He was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. He broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947
  4. 8. He was responsible for the early development and success of what is now Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. He became a noted writer and perhaps the most prominent African American leader of his time.
  5. 9. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice
  6. 10. He was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is frequently ranked as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
  7. 11. He was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020
  8. 12. He created AAADT as a haven for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance
  9. 13. She was the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics. She was an American sprinter, who became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field
  10. 15. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
  11. 16. She became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.
  12. 21. She dedicated her life to the fight for civil rights, working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). This organization was comprised mostly of African American students who engaged in acts of civil disobedience to fight racial segregation and injustice in the South.
  13. 22. He was an African American explorer who was part of the first group of people to ever reach the North Pole
  14. 23. She was the first African American woman and the second woman to receive a Star Route contract from the United States Post Office Department. After retiring from her postal route, she established her own laundry business in town.
  15. 26. She was a poet, dancer, singer, activist, and scholar. She was a world-famous author. She was best known for her unique and pioneering autobiographical writing style.