African American Women of Distinction

Question 1

As a student at Fisk University, she led SNCC marches in Nashville, joined the Freedom Rides, and marched at Selma, AL:

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Diane Nash

Question 2

This woman is a polymath that has been an engineer, an astronaut, a physician, and a documentary film director:

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Mae Jemison

Question 3

Victimized by poverty and abuse as a child, this woman became one of the world's greatest sculptors, creating The Harp:

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Augusta Savage

Question 4

This Norfolk, VA resident led the movement to ban poll taxes in America by ratifying the 24th Amendment:

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Evelyn T. Butts

Question 5

This professor at Brandeis University testified against Clarence Thomas at his confirmation, alleging sexual harassment:

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Anita Hill

Question 6

Without her knowledge or permission, this Roanoke, VA woman's cells have been used in medical research for decades:

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Henrietta Lacks

Question 7

She authored the play A Raison in the Sun and one of the subject of Nina Simone's song: To Be Young, Gifted, and Black:

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Lorraine Hansbury

Question 8

Inspired by Toni Morrison among others, this contemporary author wrote Salvage the Bones & Sing, Unburied Sing:

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Jesmyn Ward

Question 9

During the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jonah's Gourd Vine, Men and Mules, and Barracoon:

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Zora Neale Hurston

Question 10

This American artist uses silhouette installments to depict African American characters in her traveling exhibitions:

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Kara Walker

Question 11

She wrote The History of White People. She describes violence recorded in historical records as "Blood on the Page:"

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Nell Irving Painter

Question 12

The journalist and historian Nikole Hannah Jones created this podcast, mini-series, and book:

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The 1619 Project

Question 13

She was consider an icon late in her career. Her poems include "Still, I Rise" and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:"

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Maya Angelou

Question 14

Appointed by President Joe Biden, she is the first African American women ever to serve on the US Supreme Court:

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Ketanji Brown Jackson

Question 15

She successfully sued for her freedom in the 1650s, claiming she was both a Christian and that her father was white:

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Elizabeth Key

Question 16

This folk musician is the author of best selling songs like "Fast Car" and "Talkin' About A Revolution" -

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Tracy Chapman

Question 17

She was emancipated in 1826 in New York. At Seneca Falls, she gave a famous speech called "Ain't I a Woman?"

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Sojourner Truth

Question 18

Originally from Norfolk, VA, this woman helped establish the SNCC and participated in Mississippi Freedom Summer:

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Ella Baker

Question 19

She was a West Virginia University grad who worked for NASA in Langley, VA and was featured in the film Hidden Figures:

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Katherine Johnson

Question 20

When the Civil War began, she taught over 800 "contraband of war" in Hampton, VA, under an old oak tree:

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Mary Peake

Question 21

In 1963, the police imprisoned a group of teenager girls in this city, locking them away in an old out of use stockade:

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Americus

Question 22

This brave young woman led a walkout at Moton HS in Virginia to protest the segregated schools in the Prince Edward Co.:

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Barbara Johns

Question 23

This former member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party of America is currently a professor at UC-Santa Cruz:

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Angela Davis

Question 24

When she was a little girl, she integrated the public schools of New Orleans. Today, she is an educational reformer:

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Ruby Bridges

Question 25

After escaping slavery in MD in the 1840s, she led over 300 enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad:

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Araminta Ross, Harriet Tubman

Question 26

This former member of Destiny's Child is now the Queen B - and she has recorded genres of music from hip hop to country:

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Beyonce

Question 27

This LGBTQ+ woman was appointed to the United States Senate in CA after the death of Diane Feinstein:

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LaPhonza Butler

Question 28

She was the author of the novels Beloved, Song of Solomon, and The Bluest Eye who used magical realism in her works:

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Toni Morrison

Question 29

She founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and crashed the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City:

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Fannie Lou Hamer

Question 30

She was a founding member of the NAACP, an educational leader, and the first black woman elected to a School Board:

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Mary Church Terrell

Question 31

She was a daredevil pilot whose barnstorming displays attracted thousands of spectators; she died in a plane wreck:

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Bessie Coleman

Question 32

She started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 with her defiance, and she worked for Civil Rights throughout her life:

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Jo Ann Robinson, Rosa Parks

Question 33

This poet conveyed themes of intersectionality in her poetry and writing. She was a professor at Berea College:

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bell hooks

Question 34

She was the first African American woman to serve as Surgeon General - appointed by Bill Clinton in the 1990s:

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Dr. Jocelyn Elders

Question 35

This educator served as a member of FDR's "Black Cabinet," ran the National Youth Administration, and founded an HBCU:

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Mary McLeod Bethune

Question 36

She was the first openly LGBTQ+, African American elected to Congress from TX, and she helped end Nixon's Presidency:

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Karen Bass

Question 37

She served as Attorney General under President Barack Obama after having worked as a US Attorney in New York City:

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Loretta Lynch

Question 38

She was a member of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who argued both Brown V. Board and James Meredith's integration trials:

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Constance Baker Motley

Question 39

She is a professor from Yale, and she recently published the book South to America, a book on the history of racism:

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Imani Perry

Question 40

This jazz blues singer suffered from abuse & addiction most of her life. "Strange Fruit" was her famous protest song:

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Billie Holiday

Question 41

She was the first African American woman to achieve the status of Principal Dancer of the American Ballet Theater:

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Misty Copeland

Question 42

After the Revolution, she won her freedom by suit; she determined the goals of the Revolution applied to her as well!

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Elizabeth Freeman, Mum Bett

Question 43

She was the first African American woman ever elected to the Senate, and she held the seat Barack Obama would later win:

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Carol Moseley Braun

Question 44

This Richmond, VA banker and entrepreneur amassed great wealth and supported Civil Rights and charitable organizations:

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Maggie Lena Walker

Question 45

This woman was a devout Christian and patriotic American who became the first African American woman to publish poetry:

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Phillis Wheatley

Question 46

In September of 1963, four little girls were murdered when a bomb blast collapsed the basement of this church:

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The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL

Question 47

He was once considered the Father of gynecology; however, the torturous, inhumane methods he used have disgraced him:

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James Marion Sims

Question 48

This enslaved woman from Edenton, NC lived in an attic that was 9 ft x 7ft x 3ft for seven years to escape slavery:

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Harriet Jacobs

Question 49

This woman was a millionaire entrepreneur who made her fortune in haircare products and cosmetics:

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Madam C.J. Walker

Question 50

As the first African American woman to serve as Sec. of State, she was an architect of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan:

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Condoleezza Rice

African American Women of Distinction

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