Black History Month Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. first African American woman to obtain an international pilot’s license
  2. 4. responsible for the early development and success of what is now Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama
  3. 6. pioneering of investigative journalism and anti-lynching crusade
  4. 8. pioneering NASA mathematician whose crucial calculations for orbital mechanics guided America’s first crewed spaceflights to the moon
  5. 10. was the first African American major general in the US Air Force in 1959
  6. 11. helped organize and plan the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  7. 12. conductor on the Underground Railroad
Down
  1. 1. established an agriculture extension in Alabama and founded an industrial research lab
  2. 2. led and helped organize the Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and the Selma to Montgomery Marches
  3. 3. a pivotal figure in the fight to end slavery in the United States and bring about true equality for all Americans with his speeches and autobiographies
  4. 5. did the “I Have A Dream” speech in Washington
  5. 7. was the first African American woman elected to Congress in 1968
  6. 9. became the nation’s first Black United States Supreme Court Justice
  7. 12. first African American woman to win a lawsuit in the United States