Black History Month Crossword

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  1. 4. She may have been the first African-American woman to graduate college and she started Cleveland Ohio's first school for Black Americans.
  2. 6. First African-American to hold an international pilot’s license.
  3. 9. First African-American Billionaire.
  4. 10. A prominent legal advocate in the Bankhead-Jones act, she was the first African-American woman to practice law before the supreme court of the United States.
  5. 13. She was a stage actor and was the first African-American to be awarded an Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts for her role in Gone With the Wind.
  6. 15. The first African-American child to integrate into an all-white school at the age of 6.
  7. 16. The first African American airman to fight in WWII, veteran of 78 combat missions.
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  1. 1. An American political scientist and diplomat, first African-American to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
  2. 2. The First African American Astronaut.
  3. 3. First African-American woman to star in a major film.
  4. 5. He was the first African-American broadcast news network anchor ever to air on television.
  5. 7. First African-American United States Supreme Court Justice.
  6. 8. Number 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, he broke the color line in baseball which restricted major league teams from admitting black players.
  7. 11. She was the first African-American woman in space.
  8. 12. First African-American elected to the office of President of the United States.
  9. 14. The doctor who discovered how to separate plasma from red blood cells, lengthening the time blood could be stored for transfusion.