Across
- 3. made literary history with her 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- 5. fossil hunter and paleontologist who lay the foundation for Darwin
- 7. first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest
- 10. led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad
- 11. first American woman in space aboard the Challenger
- 12. first woman to win a Nobel Prize
Down
- 1. the “first lady of Physics”
- 2. first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
- 4. chemist and molecular biologist who discovered the structure of DNA
- 6. youngest person to win Nobel Peace Prize
- 8. first woman of color elected to U.S. House of Representatives
- 9. first Indian-American female astronaut