Women's History Month

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Across
  1. 2. Female architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., which she designed when she was only 21 years old.
  2. 5. Led the fight to ciminalize lynching, helped form the NAACP, and aided many black people who migrated from the south to Chicago.
  3. 8. First woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1983 for her discovery that genes can change positions on the chromosome.
  4. 9. The longest-serving female U.S. senator, elected in 1986.
Down
  1. 1. First woman in modern history to lead a major Native-American tribe, the Cherokee Nation.
  2. 3. Became the first female Secretary of State, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
  3. 4. First woman vice-presidential candidate on a major political party ticket when selected in 1984.
  4. 6. The first black woman and youngest poet laureate in American history when she was appointed in 1993.
  5. 7. First woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress and was a founding memeber of the National Women's political Caucus.