Black History Project

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Across
  1. 5. first black American woman to one her own production company
  2. 6. first black woman to own a cosmetics brand over $1 million
  3. 7. has won 11 Olympic medals and 30 world championship medals in gymnastics
  4. 8. only grandchild of Martin Luther King Jr. is continuing her family league of activism
  5. 9. won three Grammy awards, a Billboard Music award, and a BET award for her music
  6. 11. known for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott and the civil rights movement
  7. 12. the world's most commercially successful drag queen in the United States
  8. 13. first black congresswoman in Missouri history
Down
  1. 1. first African American to play in major-league baseball
  2. 2. served in the Georgia House of representatives from 2007 to 2017 and was a minority leader from 2011 to 2017
  3. 3. one of the world's best-selling artists of all time
  4. 4. first African American woman in space
  5. 5. first black woman to live and work on the International Space station
  6. 10. the first black and South Asian American vice president of the United States