Across
2. American feminist and founder of Ms. magazine
5. American poet and memoirist, known for her
autobiographical works exploring race, gender,
and identity
6. First Lady nicknamed “Lady Bird”
10. Made history in 1959 as the first African
American woman to have a show produced on
Broadway — A Raisin in the Sun
12. Georgia politician known for her voter rights
activism and gubernatorial campaign in 2018
14. American biologist and conservationist known
for her work with chimpanzees in Tanzania
15. American lawyer and Supreme Court Justice,
the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court
16. Internationally recognized writer, best known
for “The House on Mango Street,” which has sold
over six million copies


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1. First Black woman in history to receive the
Nobel Prize in literature
2. English novelist known for her Gothic novel
“Frankenstein”
3. First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Ocean
4. American activist known as the “Mother of the
Civil Rights Movement”
7. American poet and memoirist, known for her
work “The Bell Jar”
8. American abolitionist and women’s rights
activist, delivered the “Ain’t I a Woman?”
9. Mexican artist known for her surrealist self-
portraits
11. American author and civil rights activist,
known for her memoir “I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings”
13. Tennis player widely regarded as one of the
greatest of all time, and sister to a friend of
Trinity University
16. First woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only
person to win Nobel Prizes in two different
scientific fields