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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?
Mary McLeod Bethune ( 1875-1955)
What woman was the first African- American Woman to win the Noble Prize for Literature?
Tonni Mossisn(B 1931)
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?
Rosa Parks (B 1920)
Who was the first woman to run for pesident of the United States ( 1872)
Victoria Woodhull ( 1838- 1927)
Who opened up social work as a profession for women, and also won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize for her anti-war organization work?
Jane Addams ( 1860-1935
Which Mexican-American woma has repeatedly been the leading money winner in the ladies professional Golf Association?
Nancy Lopez (B1957)
Who was the first woman Poet Laureate of the United States?
Rita Dove (B 1952)
Who was the fist lady to have developed her own political and media identity?
Eleanor Roosevelt (1888-1962)
Who wrote the first version of the equal rights amendment, in 1923
Alice Paul ( 1885- 1977
Who was thefirst Black woman elected in Congress?
Shirley Chisholm (B 1924)
What leading suffragist was was arrested and convicted of attempting to vote in the 1872 election?
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Who was the frst Chinese- American woman ever elected to hold a statewide office in the united States?
March Fong Eu (B 1929
Wat journalist traveled around the world in 72 days in 1890?
Nellie Bly(1867-1922 her real name was Elisabeth
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?
Elisabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
What former slave was a powerful speaker for the rights of woman and Black People?
Sojourner Truth (C1797-1883)