Black Woman throughout the years

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Across
  1. 5. The GOAT of gymnastics, has won 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championships
  2. 8. 2006 - Organized the #MeToo movement to support victims of sexual violence and create an alliance among survivors
  3. 12. 1993 - Won a Nobel Prize in literature, and was the first Black woman to be honored with this distinction. Also won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel "Beloved"
  4. 13. 1955 - Started the Montgomery Bus Boycott after refusing to give her seat up
Down
  1. 1. 1968 - The first Black woman to be elected to congress.
  2. 2. 1920 - The first Black woman to become a pilot
  3. 3. Artist that had a massive impact on both the jazz community and the civil rights movement
  4. 4. The "Queen of soul", was ranked #1 in rolling stones 200 Greatest singers of all time. Was the first female artist to be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame
  5. 6. Was the 49th Vice President of the United States, the first female to ever take that position in US history
  6. 7. The first African American woman to serve as the first lady of the United States
  7. 9. 2022 - The First Black woman appointed to the U.S. supreme Court
  8. 10. The first Black woman to serve in the military and who also moved slaves to liberation using the Underground Railroad
  9. 11. The first child to desegregate an all white school in Louisiana