Black History Month Crosswork Puzzle (Last Names Only)

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Across
  1. 2. "I Have a Dream"
  2. 4. one of the first Black and enslaved persons in the United States, to publish a book of poems
  3. 6. The first African American cardiologist who performed the first successful open-heart surgery
  4. 10. calculated the trajectory for America's first space trip with Alan Shepherd's 1961 mission
  5. 11. Director of "Black Panther"
  6. 13. the first female vice president
  7. 15. the first African American and the first Native American, woman pilot
  8. 17. he first African-American president
  9. 18. the first Black female judge in the United States
  10. 19. "the Greatest"
  11. 20. Editor and anti-lynching activist
  12. 21. "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"
  13. 23. "Moses of her people"
  14. 24. recognized as one of the most influential women in the modern civil rights movement
  15. 25. the first Black baseball player to play in the American major leagues
  16. 27. was one of the founders of Critical Resistance
Down
  1. 1. The most decorated American gymnast in history
  2. 3. the first African American woman in space
  3. 4. the first female self-made millionaire in America
  4. 5. discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts
  5. 7. popularized the values of autonomy among African Americans
  6. 8. American teenager who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person
  7. 9. "Ain't I A Woman"
  8. 11. first African-American woman elected to Congress
  9. 12. the first African American to win a Grand Slam tennis event
  10. 14. "I know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
  11. 16. known as the "Mother of Freedom" in Baltimore
  12. 20. the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
  13. 22. "The Color Purple"
  14. 26. a lawyer, writer, and the wife of the 44th president