Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, March 21, 2007, Page 3, Image 3

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Test Your Knowledge ot Women 's History
1.
W ho founded Bethune-Cookm an College, established the
National Council o f Negro W omen, and served as an advisor on
minority affairs to President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
14. W hat w om an was turned dow n by 29 m edical schools
before being accepted as a student, graduated at the head o f her
class, and becam e the firs, I icensed w om an doctor in the U.S.?
2.
15. W hat form erslave was a powerful speak erfo rth erig h tso f
W hat w om an was the first A frican-A m erican w om an to
win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
w om en and Black people?
3.
W hat Black wom an refused togi ve up herseat to a W hite
man, in M ontgom ery, A labam a, in 1955, thus sparking the civil
rights m ovem ent o f the following decade?
16. W hen w asthe Equal Rights A m endm ent first introduced
intoC ongress?
17. W hospokeout forthe advancem ent o f Am erican Indians'
rights from sp eak er’s platform s nationw ide and before C on­
gressional com m ittees in the 1880s?
4.
W ho w asthe first wom an torun for President o f the United
States (1872)?
5.
W ho opened up social work as a profession for w om en,
and also won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize for her anti-w ar
organizing work?
6.
W hich M exican-A m erican w om an has repeatedly been
the leading m oney w inner in the Ladies Professional G olf
Association?
7.
W ho was the first w om an Poet Laureate o f the United
States?
8.
W ho was the first “First Lady” to have developed her own
political and media identity?
10. W ho was the first Black wom an elected to C o n g ress?
11. W hat leading suffragist was arrested and convicted o f
W ho w rote the first version o f the Equal Rights A m end­
attem pting to vote in the 1872 election?
m ent, in 1923?
9.
18. W ho was the first H ispanic w om an to serve as U.S.
T reasurer?
19. W hat wom an served as a “conductor" on the Underground
Railroad, freeing hundreds o f southern slaves anti leading them
to safety in the N orth? A $40.000 rew ard was offered for her
capture.
20. «Who was the first African-A m erican wom an poet to have
her works published?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Nancy Lopez
A N SW ER S
1. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
2. Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
3. Rosa Parks (b. 1920)
4. Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927)
5. Jane Addams( 1860-1935)
6. Nancy Lopez(b. 1957)
7. Rita Dove (b. 1952)
8. Eleanor Roosevelt ( 1884-1962)
9. Alice Paul (1885-1977)
ip. Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)
11. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
12. March Fong Eu (b. 1929)
13. Nellie Bly (1867-1922), real name Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman
14. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
15.SojoumerTruth(C. 1797-1883)
16.1923
17. Sarah Winnemucca(1844-1891,
18. Romana Banuelos (b. 1925)
19. Harriet T ubman (c. 1820-1913)
20. Phi I lis Wheatley (1753-1784)
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