Who am I? 1900s - 1930s

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Across
  1. 7. I am a famous baseball player who made people want to come to baseball games.
  2. 8. I am an African-American athlete who won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics.
  3. 9. I was the president during the construction of the Panama Canal.
  4. 11. I am the inventor of the telephone.
  5. 12. I am an African American author who was one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance.
  6. 14. I am the first man to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane.
  7. 15. I was the man that invented the light bulb.
  8. 16. I am a famous African American Jazz singer and trumpeter during the Jazz Age.
Down
  1. 1. I was the president during the Spanish-American War.
  2. 2. We are the group of men that were able to get jobs by skill and not by the color of our skin.
  3. 3. I am the scientist that developed hundreds of products using peanuts.
  4. 4. I was the president of the US when the stock market crashed and The Great Depression began.
  5. 5. I am from Atlanta and I wrote "Gone With The Wind," which is a novel set in the South during the Civil War.
  6. 6. We are the two men that took the first powered flight in an airplane.
  7. 10. I am a famous pianist, composer and bandleader during the Harlem Renaissance.
  8. 13. I was elected to pull America out of the Depression. I was also the president during WW1 and WW2. 3 initials