Black History Month Crossword

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