Noteworthy African Americans

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Across
  1. 4. first African American aviator
  2. 6. her refusal to give up her bus seat is just a small part of the work done by this activist
  3. 8. organizer of the Little Rock Nine
  4. 12. opened the National Training School for Women and Girls in 1901
  5. 13. enslaved woman turned conductor(on the Undergroud Railroad)
  6. 14. first Black player signed to play in the NFL in 1946
  7. 15. known as "the First Lady of Jazz"
Down
  1. 1. author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Roots
  2. 2. broke the racial barrier in tennis
  3. 3. first African American to be appointed U.S. poet laureate
  4. 5. powerful blues singer in the 1920s
  5. 7. human rights activist and exponent of Black Power
  6. 9. author of the "Ain't I a woman?" speech
  7. 10. in her 1961 Metropolitan Opera debut, she received an ovation that lasted 42 minutes!
  8. 11. worked 52 years at the Library of Congress, collecting and documenting Black literature