Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. First Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize
  2. 3. The GOAT of basketball
  3. 7. The first Black woman to attend Yale Law School
  4. 9. First African American to star in her own TV show
  5. 11. The most dominant center in the NBA
  6. 12. The first African American woman to orbit space
  7. 13. First Black woman to be elected to Congress
Down
  1. 1. Ex-slave who was a main leader of the Underground Railroad
  2. 4. First African American to play in the MLB
  3. 5. The first licensed Black pilot
  4. 6. When she was 6 years old she became the first African American student to attend William Frantz Elementary in Louisiana at the peak of desegregation
  5. 8. First Black writer and director of a studio film
  6. 10. Civil rights activist who wouldn't give up her bus seat
  7. 14. President of the National Council of Negro Women