Madam CJ Walker
George Washington Carver
Roger Arliner Young
Inventions
Fun Facts
100

Her estate was worth an estimate of $600,000

What is upon Madam Cj Walker's death?

100

Carver grew up knowing little about his mother or his father.

What is Carver's father died in an accident before he was born?

100

She is the first African American woman to receive a doctorate degree in zoology.

What is Roger Arliner Young known as?

100

Invented products out of the crops.

What is Carver invented various kinds of dyes, wood stains, boards and peanut flours?

100

She was fired because she missed classes.

What is Roger Arliner Young was fired?

200

She had very little formal education as a child during the 1870s in rural Louisiana.

What is Madam Cj Walker did not attend college, only a few night classes as an adult?

200

Born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, some time in the early mid 1860s.

What is Moses Carver purchased George's parents?

200

Born in Clifton Forge, Virginia, but grew up in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, with very little, to no money at all. 

What is Roger Young's family was poor and much time and resources were expended in the care of her disabled mother.

200

An agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans.

What is George Washington Carver was known as the peanut man?

200

In an era of high racial polarization, his fame reached beyond the black community.

What is he was widely recognized and praised in the white community for his many achievements?

300

She became known for her philanthropy and activism and she made financial donations to numerous organizations.

What is Roger became a patron of the arts?

300

He developed more than 300 food, industrial and commercial products from peanuts and other food items, and he also experimented with peanut based medicines

What is Carver’s biggest success came from peanuts?

300

The study of zoology, biology, and marine biology at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, and Howard University.

What is Roger Arliner Young's doctorate degree in zoology? 

300

 Used to treat dandruff and other scalp conditions.

What is Walker used sulfur in her hair care products?

300

They enrolled at a University in Washington, D.C. to study music.

What is Roger Arliner Young study at Howard University?

400

After suffering from a scalp ailment that resulted in her own hair loss.

What is Madam Cj Walker invented a line of African American hair products in 1905?

400

Carver applied to several colleges before being accepted at Highland University in Highland, Kansas.

What is when he arrived, they refused to allow Carver to attend this University due to his race?

400

She studied the effects of direct and indirect radiation on sea urchin eggs, on the structures that control the salt concentration in paramecium, as well as hydration and dehydration of living cells.

What is Roger Arliner Young's contribution to science?

400

She had developed her own formula to heal scalps and spur hair growth.

What is Walker stopped working for Turnbo and started the Madam Cj Walker Manufacturing Company?

400

The most prominent black scientist.

What is George Washington Carver of the 20th century?

500

The women who goes by the name of Madam Cj Walker, born on December 23, 1867, on a cotton plantation near Delta, Louisiana. 

What is Sarah Breedlove? 

500

Carver worked with famed mycologist, L.H. Pammel at the Iowa State Experimental Station. 

What is Carver had owned his skills in identifying and treating plant diseases?

500

She was hospitalized at the State Mental Asylum.

What is Roger Young's mental health failed in the late 1950's?

500

Carver's invention of plant derived products are his greatest gifts to us.

What is teaching farmers how to improve their soil through crop rotation?

500

The wealthiest African American business woman and wealthiest self made woman in America at the time of her death, in 1919.

What is Madam Cj Walker considered as?