Black women in history

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Across
  1. 2. The first Black female combat pilot in the US
  2. 4. “Queen of Soul"
  3. 6. The first Black woman to be appointed to the US Supreme Court
  4. 12. refused to give up her bus seat to a white person
  5. 13. The first African American to earn a professional nursing license
  6. 14. The first black African woman to receive the Nobel Peace prize for conservation
Down
  1. 1. Helped free slaves through the Underground Railroad
  2. 3. The first child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School
  3. 5. Writer of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,”
  4. 7. The first black woman to be elected to the US Congress
  5. 8. Became the first African American tennis player to play in the U.S National Championship
  6. 9. The first African American in the colonies to publish a poetry book
  7. 10. The first black woman to become a pilots
  8. 11. The first black principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre