Across
- 2. "I Have a Dream"
- 4. one of the first Black and enslaved persons in the United States, to publish a book of poems
- 6. The first African American cardiologist who performed the first successful open-heart surgery
- 10. calculated the trajectory for America's first space trip with Alan Shepherd's 1961 mission
- 11. Director of "Black Panther"
- 13. the first female vice president
- 15. the first African American and the first Native American, woman pilot
- 17. he first African-American president
- 18. the first Black female judge in the United States
- 19. "the Greatest"
- 20. Editor and anti-lynching activist
- 21. "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"
- 23. "Moses of her people"
- 24. recognized as one of the most influential women in the modern civil rights movement
- 25. the first Black baseball player to play in the American major leagues
- 27. was one of the founders of Critical Resistance
Down
- 1. The most decorated American gymnast in history
- 3. the first African American woman in space
- 4. the first female self-made millionaire in America
- 5. discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts
- 7. popularized the values of autonomy among African Americans
- 8. American teenager who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person
- 9. "Ain't I A Woman"
- 11. first African-American woman elected to Congress
- 12. the first African American to win a Grand Slam tennis event
- 14. "I know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
- 16. known as the "Mother of Freedom" in Baltimore
- 20. the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
- 22. "The Color Purple"
- 26. a lawyer, writer, and the wife of the 44th president