Women in STEM
Who was known as the "human computer" that served an integral part for the Apollo 11 mission?
Katherine Johnson
Who was the orator behind the "Ain't I a Woman" speech?
Sojourner Truth
Who directed the powerful biographical film “Selma,” centered on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches?
Ava DuVernay
The suffrage movement split after the Civil War, disagreeing over...
Whether to put suffrage for women or suffrage for African Americans first
Which African-American female gymnast won four gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics?
Simone Biles
Who was the first Black women to receive an MD?
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
What is Maya Angelou's first body of work?
I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing
She's a legend as a singer, but also worked in movies. Her best known film is probably "Cabin in the Sky" (1943). "Stormy Weather" was her signature song, and nobody sang it better. Who is she?
Lena Horne
Which Mississippi activist experienced a violent beating and sexual assault in the Montgomery County Jail in Winona, MS
Fannie Lou Hamer
At the Rio Olympics in 2016, who made history when she became the first African-American female swimmer to win gold in the 100m free?
Simone Manuel
Who was the first Black woman in space?
Mae Jemison.
Who was the artist behind "The Death of Cleopatra" statue?
Edmonia Lewis
Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance a 2001 film, in which she co-starred with Billy Bob Thornton. Can you name the film?
Monster's Ball
Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, Tessie Provost
Which of these dancers became the director of a major American dance company?
Judith Jamison, a long-time principal dancer for the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, became its director in 1990, after Ailey’s death.
Who worked for NASA to make the illusion transmitter?
Valerie Thomas
The first Black women EGOT winner?
Whoopi Goldberg
Nina Rae McKinney
Who is the New Orleanian civil rights leader and a black nationalist who was friends with such civil rights leaders as Marcus Garvey, Winnie Mandela, Jesse Jackson, etc?
Queen Mother Audley Moore
Who became the first Olympian in 2012 to claim two gold medals for team U.S.?
Gabby Douglas
Who was the first African American female appointed to a general surgery residency in the racially segregated South?
Dorothy Lavinia Brown
Who was the poet for the 2020 Biden Inauguration?
Amanda Gorman
She was the first African American woman to star in her own TV series. She played a widowed nurse, raising a son on her own. The series' name was "Julia". Can you name the actress?
Diahann Caroll
During the Civil War, she lectured in London on the realities of American slavery.
From a free black family in Massachusetts, Sarah Remond was friends with Charlotte Forten and visited escaped slaves William and Ellen Craft while she and they were in London. She helped persuade the British not to support the Confederacy.
Who became the first Black woman to win an Olympic metal in the high jump?
Alice Coachman