Across
- 5. Actress grammy winner
- 7. poet and activist harlem
- 10. Jazz musician known for king of Jazz
- 11. black woman lawyer
- 12. Mathmatician NASA engineer
- 14. Secretary of state
- 16. Inventor gas mask traffic symbol
- 17. boxer
- 18. first Afric americ president
Down
- 1. 1st academy award for best actor
- 2. abolishnist and activist "aint i a women"
- 3. tennis player first black am wimbeldon
- 4. A chemist who created cortisone
- 6. Won 4 gold medals 1936 olympics
- 8. First black baseball player
- 9. 1963 march leader
- 13. Poetof "caged bird"
- 15. Changed the diaologe of white/black