HP DC Ben Black History Triva - "Women In African American History"
Black History Month Interactive Triva Quiz "Women in African American History"
- 1.Phillis Wheatley is famous for being the
- A.
First African American woman millionaire
- B.
First African American female Senator
- C.
First published African American poet
- D.
First woman in America to vote in an election
- 2.Her statue, "The Death of Cleopatra," was lost after it was displayed at the 1878 Chicago Exposition. Where was it found?
- A.
In a cellar at the Smithsonian
- B.
In an art collection in Rome
- C.
Decorating the grave of a race horse
- D.
On display at a night club
- 3.Who resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in protest, after the DAR refused Marian Anderson permission to sing in a DAR hall?
- A.
Martha Washington
- B.
Eleanor Roosevelt
- C.
Edith Wilson
- D.
Mary Church Terrell
- 4.She was US Ambassador to New Zealand:
- A.
Carol Moseley Braun
- B.
Fanny Elssler
- C.
Josephine San Martin
- D.
Hattie Caraway
- 5.She was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize:
- A.
Maya Angelou
- B.
Gwendolyn Brooks
- C.
Molly Ivins
- D.
Toni Morrison
- 6.The first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was
- A.
Maya Angelou
- B.
Oprah Winfrey
- C.
Gwendolyn Brooks
- D.
Toni Morrison
- 7.Maggie Lena Walker of Richmond, Virginia, is known for her achievement as a
- A.
Track and field star
- B.
Silent movie actress
- C.
Bank president
- D.
Civil War spy
- 8.Ida B. Wells-Barnett is best known for her work:
- A.
Against lynching
- B.
For public housing
- C.
Against woman suffrage
- D.
For temperance
- 9.The first African American woman lawyer in the United States admitted to the bar (Washington, DC)
- A.
Was a key figure in the Brown v. Board of Education case
- B.
Married a newspaper publisher and wrote many articles on civil rights
- C.
Became a leader in the temperance movement
- D.
Moved to New York and taught public school in Brooklyn
- 10.She was born during the Civil War and died shortly after the Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. The first black woman to be a high school principal in Washington, DC, she was first president of the National Association of Colored Women. She was:
- A.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- B.
Mary Church Terrell
- C.
Althea Gibson
- D.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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