Empowering Black Women of History

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Across
  1. 4. Civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man.
  2. 6. Considered to be one of the pioneers of women's basketball
  3. 7. First African American to win a Grand Slam Title in Tennis
  4. 9. American singer and guitarist who invented Rock & Roll.
  5. 10. Wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activist
  6. 11. American Poet, memorist and civil rights activist, she recived dozens of awards and more than 50 degrees.
  7. 12. First black women to win an Olympic gold medal
  8. 14. American mathematician for NASA
  9. 15. First Black Women to travel into space.
  10. 16. First African American Women to serve as the First Lady of The United States.
Down
  1. 1. Refused to leave a "white's-only" area of a theater in Canada and is currently on the $10 bill
  2. 2. Escaped slavery and rescued more than 70 slaves through the Underground Railroad.
  3. 3. Civil rights activist who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
  4. 5. American educator,writer and activist
  5. 8. American singer, songwriter referred to as the Queen of Soul
  6. 13. American politician and current vice president of The United States