Across
- 2. one of the greatest professional boxers of all time
- 4. was a black nationalist and the first black president of South Africa
- 7. the first African American woman to have her very own television production company
- 9. taught himself to read and write at a young age
- 11. she set a new American record for most gold medals in gymnastics at a single Olympics Games
- 12. known most for escaping from slavery and she spent 11 years guiding other enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad as a “conductor”
- 13. Journalist, civil rights activist, mentor to the Little Rock Nine, and speaker at the March on Washington
- 14. a Baptist minister and activist who fought against racial inequality
Down
- 1. has won three National Basketball Association (NBA) championships and four NBA MVP awards
- 3. known most for her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
- 5. was an American poet, singer, and civil rights activist with a colorful and troubling past highlighted in her most famous autobiography
- 6. the first black woman to compete on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam in 1956
- 8. was the first African American professional baseball player in U.S. Major League Baseball
- 10. the 44th president of the United States and the very first African American president