Black History Women's History Month Crossword

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  1. 2. This was an African American actor who was born in Germany and he acted as Geordi LaForge in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the films Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Generations, and Star Trek: Nemesis.
  2. 6. He was elected mayor of Gary, Indiana, and he remained in office for 20 years. He was Democrat and he was one of the first African American to serve as a mayor of a major U.S. city.
  3. 7. She won gold medals in 400 IM and 400 freestyle relay at 1964 Olympics. She set 18 world records during career. She was the co-founder of Women's Sports Foundation in 1974.
  4. 8. She was a Roman Catholic nun. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for working among the poorest of the poor in the world and helping them. She founded Missionaries of Charity. People remember her now because she started projects to help the ill people, orphans, the poor, and the dying.
  5. 10. He was the son of former slaves and he won recognition with his Lyrics of Lowly Life, a collection of poems Oak and Ivy, and Majors and Minors in 1896. He didn't like his humorous poems, but he wanted to publish his other work.
  6. 12. He greatly influenced Malcolm X and established an Islamic temple.
  7. 13. She was an English educator. She devoted her life to the establishment of schools and institutions and the promotion of educational reforms. In 1835 she organized the Working and Visiting Society, in 1846 she opened a school for poor children, and in 1852 founded a juvenile reformatory. She made four visits to India after 1866, interesting herself in Indian education, and also lectured in the United States.
  8. 15. This man was a leading civil rights activist in the 1960's. He was also a democrat from Georgia. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a permanent representative under President Carter. He served as mayor of Atlanta and he ran for governor of Georgia but lost the election in 1990.
  9. 16. She was a talk show host and actress and she was in John Waters's cult films Hairspray and Cry-Baby before she had the fame as the formerly rotund princess of daytime talk. Other films she was in were Serial Mom, Mrs. Winterbourne, and Cecil B. DeMented, which was another one of John Walter’s films.
  10. 17. She is a congress representative from Texas that went to Yale law school. She is still part of congress today and started in 1995- today.
  11. 20. In 1962, she created FORMAC,one of the first computer programs.
  12. 22. He was the author of a 1950 report on racial discrimination that was cited in the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. He also was an early leader in the civil-rights movement and he founded the North Side Center for Child Development and Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited.
  13. 24. She became the first African American to in an individual Olympic gymnastics bronze medal on floor.She won a bronze medal when she was a member of the 1992 Olympic team and she won a gold medal when she was a member of the 1996 Olympic team and a member of the fourth-place 2000 Olympic team.
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  1. 1. She was one of the best “conductors” on the Underground Railroad and she traveled south and freed many slaves after freeing herself. During the civil war, she was a nurse for the hurt soldiers, a cook, a laundress, a scout, a spy, and she played a large part in the important raid to that freed more than 700 slaves.
  2. 3. She was an African American lawyer and government official. African-American lawyer and government official. As an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, she specialized in First Amendment cases. She was head of the New York City's Human Rights Commission and the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, and she taught at Georgetown Univ. Since 1991 she has been the District of Columbia's elected, non-voting delegate to the U.S. Congress.
  3. 4. She was an Indian-American NASA astronaut. She was educated in India and America. She joined NASA in 1995 and she was the mission specialist on the space shuttle STS-87 in 1997 and after that, she became the first Indian-American woman to go into space. She was a crew member on the Shuttle Columbia when it broke up when it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere in February of 2003.
  4. 5. She was the former CEO and President of eBay technologies.
  5. 9. She is a very famous author who writes about her growing up between Mexico and America. She is known for her stories and poems such as "Eleven" and "My Wicked Ways".
  6. 11. She assisted in writing many laws helping women in Illinois. She was denied entrance into the Illinois bar association even after passing the exam. She eventually was let into the bar.
  7. 12. He was the first African American supreme court justice and he was a civil rights advocate. His most important case was the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka case that ended segregation in public schools.
  8. 14. He was an African American basketball player and after he won the national championship with Michigan State University, he joined the Los Angeles Lakers and won five National Basketball Association championships. In 1991 he announced that he had tested positive for HIV and then he retired from professional basketball. He worked to promote AIDS awareness after that.
  9. 18. She was a Grammy Award-winning singer. She was a 1980's pop star. Some of her recordings include Bad Girls (1979), She Works Hard for the Money (1983), and “This Time I Know It's for Real” (1989).
  10. 19. She is an American figure and portrait painter. She studied in Philadelphia under William Sartain and she studied in Paris in the Julian and Lazar schools. She won many honors through her career. She painted lots of wealthy patrons and celebrities, like Henry James, Clemenceau, and Cardinal Mercier. Her most well- known are The Dancing Lesson, Sita and Sarita, and Portrait of Mrs. Dupont.
  11. 21. He was the son of former slaves and he escaped through the Underground Railroad to Canada but he went to Scotland later to study mechanical engineering. His most important accomplishment was making the lubricating cup for steam engines, stopping frequent stops and overheating.
  12. 23. She was the Prime Minister of India who was found guilty of a crime but refused to resign. She was assassinated by her bodyguards.