African Americans in History

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Across
  1. 1. First African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard
  2. 7. "Peanut man"
  3. 11. First African American first lady
  4. 14. Leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
  5. 15. First black woman to graduate from Yale Law School
  6. 16. Freedom Rides Organizer
  7. 17. Arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a full bus.
Down
  1. 2. Jazz singer
  2. 3. Known as "African American Computer"
  3. 4. Winner of NAACP's first Spingarn Medal
  4. 5. Civil rights activist
  5. 6. Co-chair of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board
  6. 8. Inventor of the "Power Drencher"
  7. 9. Inventor of "dry scouring"
  8. 10. First black woman to travel into space
  9. 12. South African theologian
  10. 13. 1994 American Libraries most influential black women in journalism