Across
- 3. First Black American PhD in physics from Yale
- 4. Pioneer of modern blood banking
- 5. Civil rights leader and presidential candidate
- 6. Mathematician whose work helped create GPS
- 8. First Black woman physician in the U.S.
- 10. Teen who refused bus seat before Rosa Parks
- 13. Self taught folk artist of rural Southern life
- 14. Early Black filmmaker challenging stereotypes
- 15. Internationally recognized Black and Native sculptor
- 17. First Black American novelist and abolitionist
Down
- 1. Inventor of engine lubrication systems
- 2. First Black woman to earn a bachelor degree
- 4. Harlem Renaissance poet
- 7. Security system co inventor
- 9. Beauty entrepreneur and philanthropist
- 10. Developed citizenship schools for voting rights
- 11. Improved the incandescent light bulb
- 12. NAACP leader who investigated lynchings
- 13. Legal strategist who dismantled segregation
- 16. Refrigeration and cinema technology innovator