Black History Month

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Across
  1. 7. first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice
  2. 9. founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School Institute
  3. 10. first African American woman in Congress
  4. 13. American abolitionist and women's rights activist, gave a speech named "Ain't I a woman?"
  5. 14. journalist, activist, and researcher who was an active fighter for woman suffrage, particularly for Black women
  6. 15. first African-American woman to hold a pilots license
Down
  1. 1. father of the abolitionist movement
  2. 2. memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist who wrote a book named, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
  3. 3. first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University
  4. 4. first woman to lead a major military operation in the United States
  5. 5. an agricultural scientist and inventor who created hundreds of products using peanuts
  6. 6. youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history
  7. 8. African American explorer who was the first person to explore the North Pole
  8. 11. first African American to play in Major League Baseball
  9. 12. didnt give up her seat on the bus to a white man