Across
- 3. Athlete who won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
- 4. Poet and author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
- 5. First African-American woman to hold a pilot's license.
- 7. Civil Rights organizer for the student group SNCC.
- 9. The 6-year-old who integrated a New Orleans school.
- 11. First Black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize.
- 12. Activist who believed in defense by any means necessary.
- 13. Abolitionist who escaped slavery and ran a newspaper.
- 15. Famous poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
- 16. First Black player in Major League Baseball.
- 21. Known as the Moses of the Underground Railroad.
- 22. Trumpet player and the King of Jazz.
- 23. Medical pioneer of the Blood Bank and plasma storage.
- 24. Boxer who refused to go to the Vietnam War.
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- 1. Filmmaker who owns a massive production studio in Atlanta.
- 2. First African-American woman to earn a medical degree.
- 6. First African-American Supreme Court Justice.
- 8. Scientist who taught farmers to grow peanuts for self-sufficiency.
- 10. Founder of the Tuskegee Institute who believed education was key.
- 14. Activist who escaped slavery and spoke Dutch.
- 17. Civil rights icon who started a city-wide bus boycott.
- 18. The second African-American to serve on the Supreme Court.
- 19. NBA legend who was once cut from his high school team.
- 20. The first African-American President of the United States.