Across
- 6. Set in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 7. One of MLK's closest advisors and AIDS education advocate
- 9. Used her writing to shine light on her experience as a Black, lesbian woman
- 10. Mississippi's Freedom Summer organizer
- 11. Activist, teacher, and congressman known for "Good Trouble"
- 13. 44th President of the United States
- 15. 1st African American woman elected to congress
- 17. Known for "I Have a Dream" speech
- 19. LGBTQ+ activist, known for the stonewall Riots and founding STAR
- 21. At 15 years old, refused to give up her seat on a bus
- 23. 1st Black child to enter an all white school
- 25. "Why the Caged Bird Sings" was her 1st autobiography
- 26. NASA Mathematician and Computer Scientist
- 27. 1st African American woman in history to win Nobel Prize in Literature
- 28. Comic book and animated television writer
Down
- 1. Known for "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" speech
- 2. Most decorated gymnast in history
- 3. The "Father of Black History"
- 4. 1st African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor
- 5. Journalist and suffragist who campaigned for anti-lynching legislation
- 8. 1st African American in space
- 12. "First Lady of Song" Jazz singer
- 14. Choreographer, dancer, and activist
- 16. Conductor along the Underground Railroad
- 18. Read "The Hill We Climb" at 2021 Presidential Inauguration
- 20. 1st African American to play in the MLB
- 22. Awarded 6 Tony Awards
- 24. 1st American woman to obtain an international pilot's license