Black History Month

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Across
  1. 3. first African American President
  2. 7. she refused to give up her seat at the age of 15
  3. 9. first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB)
  4. 10. famous artist that created collages
  5. 11. wrote the famous speech that starts with "I have a dream"
  6. 13. key figure during Harlem Renaissance who used music in his poems
Down
  1. 1. she is a brilliant mathematician who worked for NASA
  2. 2. first self made female millionaire selling hair care products for African American women
  3. 4. famous woman poet
  4. 5. first African American woman to receive a patent for her cabinet bed
  5. 6. city in New York where African Americans fled to
  6. 8. started the underground railroad
  7. 12. refused to give up her seat on the bus