Across
- 5. Published 14 books and produced numerous articles as a blind and deaf woman
- 7. Host of an award winning TV show
- 8. Popular black poet who earned the National Medal of Arts in 2000
- 11. Became an international symbol of the fight for girls education
- 12. Did her best to maintain and protect Egypt
- 14. Discovered radium and polonium and also had a huge contribution to finding cancer treatments
- 15. An African American athlete widely considered to be one of the best tennis players of all time
- 16. The first lady of the U.S. form 1933 to 1945 during her husbands presidency
Down
- 1. The first woman to lead a major political party in the U.K.
- 2. Best known for writing a diary during The Holocaust
- 3. Longest reigning British monarch
- 4. One of the 19th century's best pianist and composer
- 6. Led the French army to a victory at Orléans in 1429 that stopped the English attempt of conquering France
- 9. She saved a portrait of George Washington from being burned by British invaders in the War of 1812
- 10. Gymnast with 32 World/Olympic medals.
- 13. Led hundreds of enslaved people fleeing from southern plantations through the underground railroad network
