Famous African Americans

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Across
  1. 4. Invented hundreds of uses for the peanut
  2. 5. First black woman in space
  3. 7. Refused to give her seat up on a Montgomery bus
  4. 9. First black Supreme Court justice
  5. 10. Abolitionist before and during the Civil War
  6. 11. Invented the 3-light traffic light in 1923
Down
  1. 1. Designed the city of washington D.C.
  2. 2. Leader of the Underground, helping slaves to freedom
  3. 3. Female talk show host and actress
  4. 4. First black woman elected to the House of Representatives
  5. 5. Invented the refrigerated truck in 1940
  6. 6. Civil Rights Leader
  7. 8. First black president