Black Women's History

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Across
  1. 2. First Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
  2. 4. Poet and author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
  3. 5. Most decorated U.S. gymnast in history.
  4. 6. First Black president of an Ivy League university (Brown University).
  5. 8. First Black woman in space in 1992.
  6. 10. Singer and civil rights activist.
  7. 11. Olympic sprinter and track legend.
  8. 13. NASA mathematician whose work helped send astronauts into orbit.
  9. 14. Entrepreneur who became the first self-made female millionaire in the U.S.
  10. 15. Civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery.
Down
  1. 1. Civil rights activist who co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
  2. 3. Tennis champion who broke racial barriers by winning Wimbledon in 1957.
  3. 7. Abolitionist famous for the speech “Ain’t I a Woman?”
  4. 9. Novelist and Nobel Prize winner for Literature.
  5. 12. Journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the late 1800s.