| ISABELWILKERSON | "Caste" author who was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism |
| EDITH | ___ Wharton The Age of Innocence novelist and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature |
| TONI | Who authored the novel Beloved and became, in 1993, the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize? (first name only) |
| COACHMAN | Alice ___, high jumper who in 1948 became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal |
| EVARISTO | Bernardine ___, the first black woman to win the Booker Prize |
| NELLALARSEN | The first Black woman to win a Guggenheim fellowship, she explored female sexuality and biracial identity in her debut novel |
| WHOOPI | Goldberg who was the first Black woman to get an EGOT |
| COLEMAN | She was the first Black woman to stage a public flight in America |
| MORRISON | First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| WHARTON | Edith ___, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature |
| HALLEBERRY | First Black woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress: 2 wds. |
| ERIN | ___ Jackson, first Black woman to win a Winter Olympic gold in an individual sport |
| CHAUCER | The Canterbury Tales author, who was the first of the poets to be buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey (7) |
| RENT | Seventh of 10 musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| AMOS | Valerie ___ (b.1954), politician and peer, the first black woman to serve in a UK Cabinet (4) |
| DIANEABBOTT | The Shadow Home Secretary since 2016 and the first black woman to become an MP (5,6) |
| QUICKSAND | First novel of Nella Larsen, the first Black woman to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship |
| SNL | Show that Cicely Tyson became the first Black woman to host in '79 |
| EBONY | ____ Rainford-Brent, the first black woman to represent England in Test cricket (5) |
| SELMALAGERLOF | Swedish author who was the first female winner of the Nobel Literature Prize in 1909 (5,8) |
