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Across
  1. 5. Historian and brainchild of Black History Month
  2. 6. Female science fiction author
  3. 7. The first and only female Buffalo soldier in 1866
Down
  1. 1. First African American woman to complete nurse's training in the U.S
  2. 2. Not only the first African American woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but the first woman, period
  3. 3. Sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it
  4. 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"
  5. 6. First African American to win an Academy award for Best Actress