| 100% | IDA | 3 | ___ B. Wells, civil-rights leader who founded one of the first Black women’s suffrage groups in the U.S. |
| 39% | RUMI | 4 | 13th-century Persian mystic who is one of the best-selling poets in the U.S. |
| 38% | ALLIE | 5 | ___ B. Latimer, civil rights activist in the National Women's Hall of Fame |
| 37% | ELANA | 5 | ___ Meyers, who in 2015 was part of the first world champion team from the US in women's bobsled |
| 35% | GUS | 3 | Skier Kenworthy who was one of the first out gay U.S. Winter Olympians |
| 35% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the civil rights leader who has a US holiday |
| 35% | MLK | 3 | The initials of one of the most famous Civil Rights Movement leaders of all time in America: Abbr. |
| 34% | ROSAPARKS | 9 | Civil rights leader who was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ANNAJARVIS | 10 | Founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the U.S. who held the first official observance in honor of mothers in 1908: 2 wds. |
| 33% | TONI | 4 | First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 33% | DOLORESHUERTA | 13 | Civil rights leader, played by Rosario Dawson in the 18-Across biopic, who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012: 2 wds. |
| 33% | NAT | 3 | ___ "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first Black players to play in the NBA |
| 33% | INSPECTORBUCKET | 15 | “Bleak House” character who was one of the first detectives in English fiction |
| 33% | EVERS | 5 | Civil rights leader portrayed in "For Us, The Living" |
| 33% | MAE | 3 | Jemison who was the first Black woman in space |
| 33% | JEMISON | 7 | Mae who was the first Black woman in space |
| 33% | OMAR | 4 | Minnesotan Ilhan who is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress |
| 33% | MALCOLMX | 8 | Civil rights activist who promoted Islam in the Black community: 2 wds. |
| 33% | MAE | 3 | Astronaut Jemison who was the first Black woman in space |
| 33% | BAYARD | 6 | ___ Rustin, African-American civil rights leader who was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 32% | ARI | 3 | The name of the one who’s gonna last, in “Thank U, Next” |
| 32% | RAMIMALEK | 9 | Actor who became the first one of Egyptian heritage to win an Oscar for Best Actor in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 32% | SHIP | 4 | One of the S's in U.S.S. |
| 32% | HOPPER | 6 | Scientist and naval officer Grace ___ who was one of the first three pioneers in computer programming |
| 32% | TOLLS | 5 | "For Whom the Bell ___," novel by Ernest Hemingway, set in the Spanish Civil War and is regarded as one of his best works |
| 32% | ANNE | 4 | Boleyn who is one of the six women in the musical “Six” |
| 32% | LIZAMINNELLI | 12 | "Cabaret" star and singer who won one of the first Grammy Legend Awards, in 1990: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ANNASEWELL | 10 | English novelist who published only one novel in her lifetime, "Black Beauty," which is one of the top ten best selling children's novels: 2 wds. |
| 32% | WARRENHARDING | 13 | U.S. president who was the first to be elected on his birthday, the first born after the Civil War, and the first elected after women gained the right to vote (2 wds.) |
| 32% | MAE | 3 | ___ Young who is one of the pioneers of women's wrestling |