Black History Month Crossword

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  1. 4. First Black woman to be elected in US Congress
  2. 5. Astrophysicist, TV show host, and director of the Hayden Planetarium
  3. 6. First Black person to join an extended mission on the International Space Station
  4. 10. Youngest inaugural poet in US history
  5. 13. The Queen of Jazz
  6. 15. Surgeon who developed the first large scale blood bank
  7. 17. Track and field star who won 4 olympic gold medals in 1936
  8. 18. First state to abolish slavery
  9. 19. First boxer to win the Heavyweight Championship 3 times
  10. 20. First African American to win an Oscar
  11. 23. Black chemist who developed first successful treatment to Leprosy
  12. 25. First Black woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry in the US
  13. 28. First Black man to attend Bradley University
  14. 30. first African American student to attend William Frantz Elementary in Louisiana
  15. 31. Civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat
  16. 32. Writer of "Still I Rise"
  17. 34. Leader of the Underground Railroad
  18. 35. First Black woman to gain a pilots liscence
  19. 37. First African American woman in space
  20. 38. the first African American woman from any country to win an Olympic Gold Medal
  21. 39. Creator of the Potato Chip
  22. 40. First black player in the Major Baseball League
  23. 41. First Black man in space
Down
  1. 1. first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950
  2. 2. First Black American to win Nobel prize 1950
  3. 3. First African American US Justice of the Supreme Court
  4. 7. first African American to star in her own TV show in 1939
  5. 8. One of NASA's human 'computers'
  6. 9. Organized and strategized the March on Washington in August 1963
  7. 11. First female African American woman to be published
  8. 12. founded the Chicago Defender weekly newspaper
  9. 14. First African American Heavy weight champion
  10. 15. first woman to be detained for her resistance not to sit at the back of the bus when she was 15
  11. 16. “godmother of the women’s movement.”
  12. 21. Group of nine African American students to attend a newly desegregated school in Arkansas
  13. 22. first Black female judge in the United States
  14. 24. Prominent Jazz musician who plays the Trumpet and sings
  15. 26. The King of Pop
  16. 27. Pioneer in chemistry who synthesized medicinal drugs such as cortisone, steroids and birth control pills
  17. 29. First Black woman to win Nobel prize 1993
  18. 33. The Queen of Soul
  19. 36. the first African American on the staff of LIFE magazine