Across
- 4. first Black Academy Award winner
- 6. she refused to give her seat up on a bus in Montgomery, AL before Rosa Parks
- 7. her cervical cancer cells are still assisting researchers today
- 8. invented the three light traffic system
- 9. famous French entertainer
- 10. only figure skater to land a one-legged backflip at the Olympics
- 12. fastest rapper in Broadway history
- 14. first Black Congresswoman
- 15. Cincinnati's first Black mayor
- 18. famous Harlem Renaissance poet
- 19. one of the first students to attend a desegregated school
Down
- 1. female artist with the most Grammy nominations (41)
- 2. first Black female millionaire
- 3. first Black Best Actress winner at the Academy Awards
- 5. first woman to land 3 number one Billboard songs in a single year
- 11. first Black filmmaker
- 13. soprano famous for her whistle tones, Maya Rudolph's mother
- 16. first Black female pilot
- 17. Olympic track star