Across
- 3. wrote a song for Elvis Presley
- 5. first to not give up her seat on the bus
- 8. first licensed Black pilot
- 9. great contralto singer
- 11. first Black author to win Pulitzer Prize
- 12. boasts a 5 octave vocal range
- 13. West African poet
- 16. first African American to have her own TV show
- 17. set world record long jump in 1936 Olympics
- 18. at age six, defied school segregation
- 20. First Black female doctor
- 21. first Black women elected to Congress
Down
- 1. first African-American to orbit in space
- 2. 1948 Olympic high-jumper
- 4. first Black woman film producer
- 6. had cancer cells were taken from her body
- 7. first African American on staff at LIFE magazine
- 9. founded the Chicago Defender newspaper
- 10. subject of 2014 film, Selma
- 14. acclaimed dancer and choreographer
- 15. led all Black unit in Spanish-American war
- 18. key organizer for Dr. King
- 19. godmother of the women's movement