Black History Month Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. First Black woman elected to Congress
  2. 4. first African American student to attend William Frantz Elementary in Louisiana at the height of desegregation
  3. 7. First African American woman from any country to win an Olympic Gold Medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
  4. 9. first Black woman to produce, write and act in her own movie in 1923
  5. 11. First Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950
Down
  1. 1. First licensed Black pilot in the world
  2. 2. March on Washington
  3. 5. First African American to star in her own TV show in 1939
  4. 6. first African American woman who orbited into space aboard the shuttle Endeavour.
  5. 8. Set a world record in the long jump at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
  6. 10. first Black female doctor in the United States