Double Jeopardy African-American Women

Singers from the 60's

100

This recording group had Motown's 1st Number one single with "Please Mr. Postman." 

The Marvelettes

200

This group out of Teaneck, New Jersey got the ball rolling big time for female singing groups with their smash hit "Soldier Boy".

The Shirelles

300

She had one of Motown's biggest hits with a song written by Smokey Robinson where she says, "Nothing you can say can tear me away from..."

Mary Wells

400

She was the baby sitter for song writer Carole King but became famous telling everybody to, "Come on baby do the Locomotion". 

Little Eva

500

Before she was "rolling on a river" and talking about "What's love got to do with it" she had a few hit R & B songs with a man named Ike.

Tina Turner

Writers

100

This poet became famous for her poem entitled EGO TRIPPING. 

Nikki Giovanni

200

She wrote "Why the caged bird Sings."

Maya Angelou

300

She authored "The Women of Brewster Place" that was later produced by Oprah Winfrey into a mini-series.

Gloria Naylor

400

She wrote an essay entitled "I love myself when I am laughing and then again when I am looking mean and impressive. Her most famous work is "Their eyes were watching GOD."

Zora Neale Hurston

500

A Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist was once an editor at Random House.

Toni Morrison

"Who said it"

100

"Ain't I a Woman?"

Sojourner Truth

200

"Southern trees bear strange fruit"

Billie Holiday

300

"The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house."

Audre Lorde

400

"We need you to roll up your sleeves.  We need to get to work.  Because remember this.  WHen they go low, we go high.

Michelle Obama

500

"I freed a thousand slave and I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."

Harriet Tubman

Potpouri

100

She adopted children of different ethnicities and religions to create a multi-cultural family she called "The Rainbow Tribe." On stage she wore a skimpy outfit that consisted of bananas and other fruits.

Josephine Baker

200

One of the original members of The Supremes.            a)  Jackie Ross                                                          b)  Florence Ballard                                                   c)  Gladys Horton 

Florence Ballard

300

"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!"

Fannie Lou Hamer

400

Fashion designer who designed for Michelle Obama and who specializes in women's ready to wear clothing and accessories.

Tracy Reese

500

The forst female Black horse jockey.

a)  Winnie Johnson

b)  Paulette Davis

c)  Cheryl White

Cheryl White

Jazz

100

This quintessential swing singer was known for her improvised scat solos, a technique invented by one of her frequent collaborators, Louis Armstrong. 

Ella Fitzgerald  

200

 This “Queen of the Blues” won a Grammy for her rendition of the song “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes.”

Dinah Washington

300

The career of this “Empress of the Blues” is often overshadowed by her untimely death from injuries sustained in a car accident.

Bessie Smith

 

400

“Sassy” came by her nickname when performing with Billy Eckstine’s band. 

 Sarah Vaughan

500

This Juilliard-educated pianist rejected the label of jazz singer and became known for her political activism with songs like “To Be Young, Gifted and Black.”

 Nina Simone