Prominent Black Figures for Black History Month
Across
- 4. Professional tennis player, won 23 Grand Slam singles titles
- 6. Canadian jazz pianist that's won 7 Grammy Awards
- 8. First black and Asian female vice president
- 10. Canadian-born inventor & engineer, 57 US patents
- 13. Canadian sprinter that's won 6 Olympic medals
- 14. Let hundreds of enslaved people to freedom through the underground railroad
- 15. Got arrested for refusing to surrender her bus seat
Down
- 1. First Black Canadian Member of Parliment
- 2. First president of South Africa
- 3. First African-American president
- 5. First Canadian sprinter to break the 10 second mark in the 100 meter sprint
- 7. Movie theatre Rosa Parks
- 9. First Black Haitian Canadian person to be Governer General of Canada
- 11. He had a dream
- 12. Professional boxer, nicknamed "The Great" and is widely regarded as the best heavyweight boxer of all time