Women's History Month CrossWord Puzzle

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  1. 5. : She carved a path for the open existence of Black queer musicians in the LGBTQ+ pride movement
  2. 7. : the first woman elected in Canada and the British Empire and the first to be elected by both men and women
  3. 8. : one of the main promoters for women's suffrage in Spain,
  4. 9. (American women who was arrested as a teenager because she refused to give up her seat to a white women)
  5. 13. (First and only black first lady of the United State of America)
  6. 15. who was the source of the HeLa cell line that has been critical to numerous advances in medicine
  7. 17. establishing educational reform, championing the arts, and extending Russia's borders in the largest territorial gain since Ivan the Terrible.
  8. 18. (Hollywood actress/singer also known as “blonde bombshell”)
  9. 20. (The First women to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean)
  10. 21. (poet who read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at former President Joe Biden inauguration.)
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  1. 1. (The first black female millionaire in America and best known for her homemade hair care products for black women.)
  2. 2. : formed the Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) when her local branch of the Independent Labour Party refused to admit women members.
  3. 3. : was a Canadian activist, feminist, and politician
  4. 4. (co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association, she fought for gender inequality and women’s right to vote.)
  5. 6. (Former American tennis player, with 23 Grand Slam Titles)
  6. 10. (first generation Chinese American fashion designer; best known for elegant and sophisticated wedding dresses)
  7. 11. : six novels: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (both 1817).
  8. 12. : In the 1910s she created clothes with simple lines in comfortable jersey fabric, freeing women from their corsets
  9. 14. (Hollywood’s first Asian American movie star)
  10. 16. work helped inspire modern wireless communication technologies, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
  11. 19. her work on legislation advancing women's rights and education.