Women's History Month
Across
- 2. A Native American woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition across North America.
- 5. First Indian woman to go to space. Flew in 1997 and in 2001 on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
- 7. An 18-year-old climate activist and winner of Time magazine's 2019 Person of the Year.
- 9. A popular Hispanic singer known as the “Queen of Tejano” and “Queen of Latin music”.
- 12. The first woman to complete a transatlantic flight.
- 14. Crucial to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. Her work has only been recently recognized after being wrongfully accredited to Watson and Crick.
- 15. First and only queen of the Hawaiian kingdom, ruled for two years between 1891 and 1893.
Down
- 1. She rescued around 70 enslaved people on the Underground Railroad; nicknamed "Moses" for her brave efforts.
- 3. First Asian American, African American and female to be vice president of the United States.
- 4. A civil rights activist and journalist who started an anti-lynching campaign during the 1890s.
- 6. Her diary, written in hiding, helped historians better understand the Holocaust.
- 8. First Jewish woman and second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, fought for gender equality and women’s rights.
- 10. A Pakistani activist for female education and youngest nobel prize laureate.
- 11. First woman of color to be elected to the House of Representatives in 1964, and first asian-american to run for president
- 13. A Mexican artist and feminist icon remembered for her self-portraits and unibrow.