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Women
Objectives
Acronym
Numbers
Founding
100

Who is the woman associated with Spirituality?

Deborah

100

How many objectives are there?

10

100

What is the third Acronym of SISTUHS?

  • Spirituality

  • Focusing on the spirit or the soul

100

What are the symbolic numbers of SISTUHS, Incorporated?

  • 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12

100

What is the date that SISTUHS, Incorporated was founded?

  • December 3rd, 1992

  • The color stands for wisdom and intellect throughout
  • the ages and represents a need to be responsible
200

Who is the woman associated with Health?

  • Hadiyah-Nicole Green

200

What objectives are associated with Health?

3

200

What is the second Acronym of SISTUHS?

  • Initiative 

  • The action of taking the first step

200

What is the number associated with Unity?

2

200

Who wrote the SISTUHS’ Song?

  • Vanessa Harrington

300

Who is the woman associated with Tenacity?

  • Mary Mcleod Bethune

300

What objectives are associated with Strength?

2&5

300

What is the fourth Acronym of SISTUHS?

  • Tenacity

  • Holding Firmly

300

What is number 3? (3)

  • n the number three, we have

-the first geometric figure

-a triangle

  • Three therefore represents that which is

-solid

-real

-substantial

-complete

-entire

  • Triangle/Pyramid
  • Trinity
300

What does the color Green represent (3)?

  • Green is directly related to growth, fertility, and nature,
    which harnesses the power of life
  • Stability and Endurance
  • Growth and Hope
  • Safety
  • Vegitation
  • Wadj, the word for green, means to florish or be healthy
  • It is the most restful color for the human eye
400

Who was Betty Shabazz? What message does the life she led convey? (3)

  • Betty Jean Sanders

  • Married to civil rights activist Malcolm X

  •  Betty Jean Sanders would become a young widower in 1965 after the public assassination of her husband

  • Shabazz was left pregnant with twin daughters, to care for her four daughters alone

  • For three weeks after the death of Malcolm, Betty would not sleep

  • She then took pilgrimage to Mecca where she would find the strength to return to her six children

  • After returning to the US, Betty threw herself in the care and education of her children

  • While educating her six children, Betty furthered her education by receiving her masters in public health administration

  • Her daughter would later attempt to hire a hitman to kill the man accused of setting up the assassination of her father Malcolm

  • Shabazz’s life would end on June 23, 1997 after a house fire set by her grandson

400

What objectives are associated with Substance?

1-10

400

What is the sixth Acronym of SISTUHS?

  • Health

  • Physical, spiritual, and mental well-being

400

What is the significance of the number 5? (3)

  • Five is associated to biological phenomena

  • 5 toes

  • 5 fingers

  • 5 senses

  • 5 appendages.

  • Five is the number of freedom.

  • Five Elected Officers

  • Five Pointed Star

400

What is the name of the SISTUHS’s Poem? (Both)

  • Founding Poem: “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou

  • Amended Poem: “Ego Tripping” by Nikki Giovanni

500

Bonus: 

Name five positions on the National Board of Directors. (Do not have to list names)

  • National Directress

  • Assistant Directress of Administration

  • Assistant Directress of Policy 

  • Director of Correspondence

  • Director of Finance and Budget 

  • Director of Legislation 

  • Director of Membership and Expansion 

  • Director of Programs 

500

What are 5 of the 10 Objectives?

Promote spiritual growth

2. Promote personal growth and develop knowledge of thyself

3. Promote a positive image of African-American Women and anything that positively enhances the survival and well-being of African-American Women.

4. Seek guidance from Elder African American Women

5. Foster an environment amongst ourselves that is conducive to learning our history and the role African American women have played and continue to play in the development of this and other nations.

6. Develop local leadership to respond to community needs, particularly those of African American women.

7.  Provide moral and educational guidance to other young African American Women in the community

8. Provide unity among People of Color.

9. Provide opportunities to educate ourselves as well as the community on political issues that affect the well-being of African American women.

10. Provide encouragement and support to African-American Men.

500

Bonus: Give 3 examples of symbolism from the Sankofa movie.


    • The rape of women- symbolizes the rape of Africa

    • Field Slave vs. House Slave- Europeans causing separation between Black people

    • Light or White Skin vs. Dark Skin- Europeans and Lightskin

    • Africans seeing themselves as superior to the inferior dark skin African

    • The Vulture (Sankofa Bird) - It represented both life and death


500

Name one of the Four Points of Perfection.

  • Promoting Moral & Educational Guidance

  • Promoting Spiritual Growth

  • Presenting a positive image of African-American women and anything that positively enhances the survival and well-being of African-American Women

  • Develop local leadership to respond to community needs, particularly those of the African-American community.

500

Symbol: Name 3 things the Ankh signifies.

Alpha and Omega

Union of Man and Woman

Fertility

Life + Eternity = Immortality

Mother Earth

Mental, Spiritual & Physical growth yielding Health & Happiness 

Often referred to as the original cross