Across
- 2. 7’1 basketball player who played center in the NBA for 14 seasons and is considered one of the the greatest basketball players of all time
- 4. award winning black tennis player (male)
- 5. the 1986 World champion and the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist (skated against Katrina Witt in “Battle of the Carmens”)
- 8. escaped slavery and worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad (conducted over 19 missions over 10 years and freed 70+ people)
- 9. African American surgeon who created new techniques of blood storage and blood banks
- 13. the first African American to win a Grand Slam tennis event
- 14. created line of black hair products that led to her becoming a self made millionaire
- 16. Most famous black baseball player that broke color barriers by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers
- 17. Jamaican political activist and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
- 19. Formerly enslaved woman and considered the first published black poet
- 20. inventor of the three-way traffic light
Down
- 1. the first Black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize
- 3. became the first African American Supreme Court Justice
- 6. former slave and founder of the first black owned car company
- 7. author and poet behind “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”
- 10. the first African-American pitcher to pitch in the World Series
- 11. Jazz singer who joined the Cotton Club at age 16 and starred in movies like the Wiz in 1974
- 12. television channel dedicated to showcasing original programming centering and targeting black people
- 15. one of the famous Jennifer’s (Jlo,JLaw…)
- 18. formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces