Prominent Black Figures for Black History Month

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