Black American History Study Guide 2025

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Across
  1. 4. She was known as the "Queen of Soul."
  2. 5. She had a 9-year winning streak at the American Tennis Association.
  3. 6. She has won multiple gold medals as a gymnast.
  4. 7. He was the 44th President of the United States.
  5. 11. He was the first American to reach the north pole.
  6. 13. He was originally born named Cassius Clay.
  7. 14. He developed over 300 products from peanuts.
  8. 16. He won four gold medals in 1936.
  9. 17. He established the trade post that grew into Chicago.
  10. 18. She employed over 5,000 black women in Indianapolis.
Down
  1. 1. She was the first black woman to get an international pilot's license.
  2. 2. He invented the gas mask.
  3. 3. He was on the Challenger Space Shuttle.
  4. 5. He started a funeral insurance business in 1923.
  5. 6. He was an astronomer who published an Almanac in 1792.
  6. 8. He wrote sixteen books of poems and two novels.
  7. 9. She was a gifted poet who was kidnapped at age 8.
  8. 10. His nickname was "The Brown Bomber."
  9. 12. He owned his own record store in Detroit.
  10. 15. She won 3 gold medals after being told she would never walk again.