Across
- 2. - First african american to travel in space
- 7. - led and helped organize the freedom rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and the Selma to Montgomery Marches.
- 10. - being president in 2009
- 11. - First african american woman in space
- 12. - becoming the first african american to play major league baseball in 1947
- 13. - first American U.S. Congresswoman
- 14. - first african american senator
Down
- 1. - a pivotal figure in the fight to end slavery in the United States and bring about true equality for all Americans with his speeches and autobiographies.
- 3. - Becoming the first men to reach the North Pole in 1909
- 4. - winning the Pulitzer price for poetry in 1950
- 5. - receiving an Academy Award for Best Supporting actress in 1940
- 6. - winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936
- 8. - helped organize and plan the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 9. Washington Carver - established an agriculture extension in Alabama and founded an industrial research lab.