Across
- 2. Actor
- 4. first female billionaire
- 5. violent civil rights activist
- 8. Former NBA player, great shoes
- 9. First African American to be granted a patent
- 14. Novelist and social critic
- 15. "Satchmo" jazz musician
- 16. Wrote "Roots"
- 17. American botanist and inventor
- 18. 3 time FIFA world cup champ
- 19. First African American woman to earn a PHD from MIT
- 20. Cocreator of the IBM personal computer
- 21. Fastest man alive
- 24. "Sister Act"
- 27. First female millionaire in America
- 28. "Single Ladies"
Down
- 1. "Underground Railroad"
- 3. Possibly the best boxer ever
- 6. African American abolitionist, writer, statesman
- 7. Famous performer and guitarist
- 10. His inventions were used by NASA
- 11. Leader of the American civil rights movement
- 12. Created the Home Security System
- 13. "Black Panther"
- 22. "King of Pop"
- 23. The last POTUS
- 25. Influenced the start of the civil rights movement
- 26. Female writer and poet