Women/Black History Month Crossword

The first black U.S. president.
His philosophy of nonviolent resistance led to his arrest on numerous occasions in the 1950s 60s.
He built the largest religious movement in northern ghettos during the Great Depression
She is the first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention.
In the Civil War he helped organize two regiments of Massachusetts African Americans and urged other blacks to join the Union ranks.
He was secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and tirelessly fought against racial discrimination and violence in the United States.
She read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Clinton in 1993.
He was a hip-hop star who shot to fame after being a featured rapper on Dr. Dre's 1992 album The Chronic.
Led NL in home runs and RBI twice each;
He won the Heisman Trophy as the best college player of 1968.
She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Moonstruck (1987).
She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane and the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic
She illustrated more than 60 books including works by George Ade, Carl Sandburg, and Louis Untermeyer, as well as her own poems and her stories for children.
She won her first WTA singles title at Indian Wells in 2002, and by the end of that year was ranked #8 in the world in women's singles.
She's best known for two popular roles: as Sue Ann Nivens in the 1970s hit The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and as Rose Nyland in the 1980s hit The Golden Girls.
After working with Louis Leakey, she established (1960) a research camp in the Gombe Stream Game Reserve, a national park in what is now Tanzania, to study chimpanzee behavior.
She was one of the most successful supermodels of the 1990s, known in particular for her fresh, low-glamour beauty.
She has written over 30 books for children, including The Mouse and The Motorcycle and the Newbery-winning Dear Mr. Henshaw. Cleary has also published two memoirs, A Girl From Yamhill and My Own Two Feet.
She became famous for her devotion to fantastical costumes and and outrageous fashion, as she sported a look that was equal parts Cher, Joan Crawford and Liberace.
She was called the Angel of the Battlefield. In 1865 President Lincoln appointed her to search for missing prisoners