2014 Black History Month Puzzle

5. She was the first poet to do an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost spoke for President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
7. What Soccer player became the youngest American athlete in more than 115 years to sign a major league professional contract in 2004, at the age of 14?
8. Who built the township with the intention of establishing a self-sufficient city where African Americans could live their lives free of racial prejudice?
11. Who successfully negotiated the release of an African-American pilot who was shot down over Syria and taken hostage in 1983?
12. Who was the first African-American inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000?
13. Who was the first black appointed to the rank of general in 1940?
16. Who was the first African-American Rhodes scholar?
17. Who was the first black artist to paint an official presidential portrait?

1. After a long career as an actress and singer this individual earned a bachelor's degree in theology from Georgetown University in 1985.
2. Who is credited with helping to design the blueprints for our nation's capital?
3. What rap artist graduated from Adelphi University where he studied graphic design?
4. Who was the African-American heavyweight champion that patented a wrench in 1922?
6. Who became the first licensed African-American attorney in the U.S. in 1844 and later became the first black American justice of the peace?
9. Who founded the first black-owned hospital in America, and credited with the world's first successful heart surgery in 1893 (Chicago)?
10. Who signed a lifetime contract with the pancake company and allowed her image to be used for packaging and ads?
14. Who founded the first national black church in the United States, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1816?
15. This was the first African-American controlled company to sell shares on the New York Stock Exchange?