Black History Month extra credit

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Across
  1. 3. Won 23 grand slam championships
  2. 4. Activist and poet and fought against racism
  3. 5. Creator of jazz poetry wrote novels, stories, essays, and plays
  4. 6. An Olympic gymnast who won 11 Olympic medals
  5. 8. First African American woman to win an Oscar award and first black woman to sing on the radio
  6. 10. Won NBA finals in 2022 and showed skill can beat size.
  7. 13. Age 17 won a local beauty pageant and 150 countries watched her show
  8. 15. African American inventor that invented the elevator.
  9. 16. First African American to have a PHD
  10. 18. First black woman to cross the color line and win 11 grand slams in international tennis
  11. 19. The first USA born African American to play in the NHL
  12. 20. He won 4 Olympic gold medals in track and field
Down
  1. 1. Inventor and scientist that invented the peanut.
  2. 2. Invented the laser phacoprobe and also improved peoples vision
  3. 7. Youngest of 20 kids and was the first woman at American U.S. Congress
  4. 9. First African American students to go to a white school.
  5. 11. First black woman to win a lawsuit against a white man, and spoke up to help enslaved people
  6. 12. First African American woman to travel to space
  7. 14. Made magazines that black people could read; also had 15 siblings.
  8. 17. had the most NBA championship rings and won 5 MVP awards