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Who founded Bethune-Cookman Collage, established the National Council of Negro Woman, and served as an advisor on minority affiars to President franklin D. Roosevelt?
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Mary McLeod Bethune ( 1875-1955)
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What woman was the first African- American Woman to win the Noble Prize for Literature?
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Tonni Mossisn(B 1931)
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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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Rosa Parks (B 1920)
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Who was the first woman to run for pesident of the United States ( 1872)
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Victoria Woodhull ( 1838- 1927)
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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 organization work?
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Jane Addams ( 1860-1935
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Which Mexican-American woma has repeatedly been the leading money winner in the ladies professional Golf Association?
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Nancy Lopez (B1957)
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Who was the first woman Poet Laureate of the United States?
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Rita Dove (B 1952)
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Who was the fist lady to have developed her own political and media identity?
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1888-1962)
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Who wrote the first version of the equal rights amendment, in 1923
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Alice Paul ( 1885- 1977
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Who was thefirst Black woman elected in Congress?
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Shirley Chisholm (B 1924)
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What leading suffragist was was arrested and convicted of attempting to vote in the 1872 election?
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Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
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Who was the frst Chinese- American woman ever elected to hold a statewide office in the united States?
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March Fong Eu (B 1929
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Wat journalist traveled around the world in 72 days in 1890?
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Nellie Bly(1867-1922 her real name was Elisabeth
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What woman was turned down by 29 medical schools before being accepted as a student, graduated at the top of her class, and became the first licensed woman docter in the U.S?
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Elisabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
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What former slave was a powerful speaker for the rights of woman and Black People?
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Sojourner Truth (C1797-1883)
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