What is the highest degree that Edward Bouchet received?
What is a PhD?
100
What organization did Medgar Evers work for?
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
100
Is there a women's history month in every country?
No
200
Pride or belief in one's country
What is nationalism?
200
What is one obstacle Madam C.J. Walker had to overcome?
Abusive brother-in-law, being born during the times of slavery, death of her husband, hair loss
200
What did Morgan Freeman say about black history month?
That we should not have it because we should always be celebrating black history month
200
What was Bloody Sunday?
It turned from a peaceful march across the Selma, Alabama bridge into a bloody beating by whites and police officers of peaceful protestors
200
What does it mean to be contemporary?
Modern, happening right now
300
The right to vote
What is suffrage or franchise
300
What was the name of where the black women at NASA worked?
West computer room
300
How did Bessie Coleman die?
Plane crash, she did not have her seatbelt on
300
What did Marcus Garvey believe blacks should do? What was the name of his belief?
Pan-Africanism. All Africans from all over the world should return to Africa
300
What kind of products did Madam C.J. Walker make?
Hair care products for black women
400
The way you see or explain things
Interpretation
400
Why did Sojourner Truth giver her "Ain't I a Woman" speech?
Because men had showed up and said the women were not valid, that there was no need for equality etc.
400
Thomas L. Jennings was the first black person to own a patent, why did this matter?
Because back then people of color were not usually allowed to own anything, let alone a right to make more money.
400
Who was Nelson Mandela?
Former president of South Africa
400
What is the poem Phenomenal Woman all about?
How women are amazing just the way they are and every part of them is awesome
500
What does apartheid mean?
Discrimination or separation by race in South Africa
500
Give an example of feminism
Men and women being paid the same, men and women being hired for the same job, etc.
500
Where did Edward Bouchet go to school for his PhD?
Yale
500
What does it mean to use activism as a civil rights pioneer?
To advocate or work for improved rights for the people, and to be one of the first
500
Name one contemporary civil rights activist
Colin Kaepernick, Malala, Shaun King, Women who started the Black Lives Matter movement, leaders of the Women's March, leaders of the March for our Lives