Notable Black Americans

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Across
  1. 3. first fighter to win the world heavyweight championship three times
  2. 7. 44th president of the united states
  3. 8. NASA mathematician that helped navigate spacecraft to the moon
  4. 10. the NBA GOAT
  5. 12. 1960's "fastest woman alive"
  6. 13. First African American female astronaut to go to space
  7. 14. Gave famous speech entitled, "Ain't I a woman"
  8. 15. known as the "mother of the civil rights movement"
Down
  1. 1. abolitionist and "conductor" of the underground railroad
  2. 2. "You get a car! And you get a car!"
  3. 4. scientist, agricultural expert, and inventor of hundreds of products with peanuts
  4. 5. first African American to play in the MLB
  5. 6. founder of the Tuskegee Institute
  6. 9. author of Why the Caged Bird Sings
  7. 11. first female self-made millionaire