Historical African Americans

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  1. 4. Founded, wrote, and edited her own newspaper called ‘the Women’s Voice”
  2. 5. Goldye The only black Jewish woman to perform liturgical music during the golden age of cantorial music
  3. 6. Abbott Founder of The Defender, the largest black newspaper in the US during the 20th century
  4. 7. The first black woman to graduate from Yale and serve as a judge
  5. 13. The "Queen of the Whistle Register."
  6. 14. An enslaved poet in colonial America
  7. 16. An American civil rights lawyer and an associate justice of the Supreme Court. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice
  8. 17. a prominent black director and photographer, a sesame street character was named after him
  9. 19. challenged the prejudice that prevented African Americans from pursuing careers in medicine and became the first African American woman in the United States to earn an M.D. degree
  10. 21. An American sailor of African and Native American descent, commonly regarded as the first American killed in the American Revolution
  11. 22. A singer who went on worldwide tours and often sang for American political events
  12. 23. One of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement, stressed peaceful protesting
  13. 24. Formed a famous dance school wit the focus of honoring black culture
Down
  1. 1. Her unique cells are still used in vaccines and research today
  2. 2. the first Black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal
  3. 3. A gay rights activist who started STAR, a shelter for homeless gay and trans youth
  4. 8. Helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) as an alternative to the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party
  5. 9. The first African American, and the first Native American, woman pilot
  6. 10. starred in the show Buelah as the first ever show with an African American as a lead before quitting a year later due to the role degrading black people
  7. 11. the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize
  8. 12. Ranked by ESPN as the 6th greatest North American athlete of the 20th century
  9. 15. A songwriter who had her songs sung by Elvis, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, and more
  10. 18. Was hired as a Race Relations Secretary for the pacifist group Fellowship of Reconciliation
  11. 20. A writer whose work fictionalized fundamental personal questions and dilemmas