Black History Month Crossword

4. The First African American Astronaut.
7. Number 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, he broke the color line in baseball which restricted major league teams from admitting black players.
9. 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.
12. A staunch abbolitionist in the mid 19th centurty, she was the first African-American woman to complete a 4 year university course and she started Cleveland Ohio's first school for Black Americans.
13. The first African American airman to fight in WWII, veteran of 78 combat missions.
14. This political scientist and diplomat who helped form the United Nations was first African-American to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
15. The first African-American child to integrate into an all-white school at the age of 6.
16. She was the first African-American woman in space.

1. He was a dedicated journalist with more than 5 awards and he was the first African-American broadcast news network anchor ever to air on television.
2. A Stunt Pilot in the early 20th century, this woman was the first African-American to hold an international pilot’s license.
3. The first African-American United States Supreme Court Justice.
5. A renown enterainer who got her start in vaudeville, this woman went on to perform at the Paris World Fair in 1925 and was later an agent of the French Resistance durring World War II. She was also the First African-American woman to star in a major film.
6. She was a stage actor and the first African-American to be awarded an Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts for her role in Gone With the Wind.
8. The doctor who discovered how to separate plasma from red blood cells, lengthening the time blood could be stored for transfusion.
10. The first African-American elected to the office of President of the United States.
11. Media Mogul, philanthropist, and household name, this woman is the first African-American Billionaire.