Across
- 5. Historian and brainchild of Black History Month
- 6. Female science fiction author
- 7. The first and only female Buffalo soldier in 1866
Down
- 1. First African American woman to complete nurse's training in the U.S
- 2. Not only the first African American woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but the first woman, period
- 3. Sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it
- 4. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"
- 6. First African American to win an Academy award for Best Actress
