Across
- 2. Olympic boxing champion in 1960, Presidential medal of freedom recipient, civil rights activist.
- 4. The first African American woman to travel into space.
- 5. Musical hits include “I Shot the Sheff”. “No Woman No Cry”, and “Three little birds”.
- 6. Author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”. Civil rights activist, and first black woman featured on the US quarter.
- 8. Agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts.
- 9. Female physicist and mathematician whose calculations were critical to NASA missions sending astronauts into orbit and to the moon.
Down
- 1. first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), a precursor of the U.S. Air Force.
- 3. Authored the book "Becoming", which was the best selling hardcover book of 2018.
- 4. Educational activist, Advisor to two Presidents of the United States (Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman).
- 7. Prominent poet during the Harlem Renaissance who many credit for the creation of “Jazz Poetry”