Black History Month 2026

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Across
  1. 2. the first Black female doctor to receive a medical patent for her invention of a laser cataract treatment.
  2. 4. became a disability activist after she was denied a degree in speech therapy explicitly for being a Black woman with a disability.
  3. 5. he introduced the intradermal vaccination technique for smallpox.
  4. 7. the first woman to perform open-heart surgery in 1943.
  5. 8. the first Black female neurosurgeon.
Down
  1. 1. the first Black woman to work as a professionally trained nurse in the U.S.
  2. 3. the first Black female dentist in the US.
  3. 6. the first Black professor at Harvard.