Women in History
31 Questions I 8 Attempts I Created By dubltrbl1 1538 days ago| Q.1) |
Who founded Bethune-Cookman College, established the National Council of Negro Women, and served as an advisor on minority affairs to President Franklin D. Roosevelt? |
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What woman was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. ? |
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What Black woman refused to give up her seat to a White man, in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, thus sparking the civil rights movement of the following decade? |
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Who was the first woman to run for President of the |
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. Who opened up social work as a profession for women, and also won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize for her anti-war organizing work? |
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Which Mexican-American woman has repeatedly been the leading money winner in the Ladies Professional Golf Association? |
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Who was the first woman Poet Laureate of the |
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Who was the first “First Lady” to have developed her own political and media identity? |
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| Q.9) | Who wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment, in 1923? |
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Who was the first Black woman elected to Congress? |
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| Q.11) | What leading suffragist was arrested and convicted of attempting to vote in the 1872 election? |
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Who was the first Chinese-American woman ever elected to hold a statewide office in the |
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What journalist traveled around the world in 72 days in 1890? |
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What woman was turned down by 29 medical schools before being accepted as a student, graduated at the head of her class, and became the first licensed woman doctor in the |
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What former slave was a powerful speaker for the rights of women and Black people? |
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When was the Equal Rights Amendment first introduced into Congress? |
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Who was the last queen of the Hawaiian Islands, deposed because American business interests wanted to annex |
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Which woman was banished from the |
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Who spoke out for the advancement of American Indians’ rights from speaker’s platforms nationwide and before Congressional committees in the 1880s? |
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Who drove a stagecoach across the roughest part of the West without anyone knowing until she died that she was a woman? |
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Who was the first Hispanic woman to serve as U.S. Treasurer? |
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| Q.22) | Who was the Shoshone Indian woman who served as guide and interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition? |
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Who was Chair of the Board and publisher of The |
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About 20,000 women shirtwaist workers staged a strike for better working conditions. Their action was called the “Uprising of the 20,000.” When and where did his strike occur? |
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When did officials of Little League Baseball announce that they would “defer to the changing social climate” and let girls play on their teams? |
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As vice president of the United Farm Workers, what woman has been vital in speaking for civil and economic rights for farm workers throughout the |
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When did Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 go into effect, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded school programs and activities? |
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What woman was invited to teach nuclear physics at Princeton University, even though no female students were allowed to study there? |
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What woman served as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, freeing hundreds of southern slaves and leading them to safety in the North? A $40,000 reward was offered for her capture. |
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What woman is credited with helping free more than 2,000 Chinese women and children smuggled into |
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| Q.31) | Who was the first African-American woman poet to have her works published? |
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