Black History Month

2. Renowned jazz singer and first Black woman to win a Grammy.
5. Iconic heavyweight boxer and civil rights activist.
9. First African American who orbited space.
10. First Black woman and former public defender on the Supreme Court.
12. Famous Track and Field athlete who won medals in Berlin Olympics.
13. First licensed black pilot.
15. Journalist and anti-lynching activist.
16. Scientist who discovered hundreds of uses for peanuts and agricultural products.
18. First female self-made millionaire in America.
19. Abolitionist leader and author who escaped slavery.
21. Six year old girl who through attending school helped desegregation.
22. Inventor of the three-light traffic signal.
23. NASA mathematician whose calculations were critical to1960s space missions.
24. The first Black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
25. First African American in Space.

1. Broke the baseball color barrier in 1947.
3. Civil rights leader and long-serving U.S. Congressman.
4. Most Decorated Gymnast in Olympic History.
6. Civil rights leader who advocated for nonviolent protest and delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech.
7. Pioneer who refused to move to the back of a bus months before Rosa Parks.
8. First black general in the U.S. Army.
11. Abolitionist who led enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
14. Educator and founder of Tuskegee University
17. The first African American President of the United States.
20. Known for refusing to give up her seat, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
21. The Founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET).