Women's History Month Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. She became the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and run for president.
  2. 4. She became the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
  3. 8. Moreno She became the first Latina woman to win an Oscar.
  4. 11. She became the first Asian American featured on U.S. currency.
  5. 15. Ride She became the first American woman to travel to space.
  6. 16. She was an American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecraft during her more than three decades with the U.S. space program.
  7. 17. She was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights campaigner.
  8. 18. She became the first African American woman to win a Grammy.
  9. 19. She was instrumental in changing the role and perception of the nursing profession.
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  1. 1. She was the oldest known living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
  2. 2. She the first Jewish woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
  3. 5. She was the first woman of color to win Best Director at the Oscars.
  4. 6. She became the first female co-anchor of a network evening news program.
  5. 7. She became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in 1903
  6. 9. She was a British ethologist known for her exceptionally detailed and long-term research on the chimpanzees of Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park.
  7. 10. She was a poet, singer, and civil rights activist
  8. 12. The first Woman's History Day was held here in 1909.
  9. 13. She began fighting for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan at just 11 years old.
  10. 14. She became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.