One of the nicknames given to Georgia O'Keeffe, an American modernist artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes
What/who is "Mother of American modernism"?
Mary Church Terrell, the first black woman to serve on a Board of Education (in D.C.), sued to integrate restaurants in the 1950’s, integrated the American Association of University Women at age 85, and was a founding member of NAACP, earned a graduate degree from what college?
What was Oberlin College?
Mary Harris Jones led a march of child workers all the way from the mills of Pennsylvania to President Theodore Roosevelt’s vacation home on Long Island with the goal of bringing the evils of child labor to the attention of the president and the national press. The march was this long in length.
What was 125 miles?
Clara Barton solicited donated supplies and took them directly onto battlegrounds, to get food, bandages, and medical supplies to the wounded. She also helped document approximately how many men killed or missing in action so their families could be notified.
What is 22,000?
Crystal Eastman, lawyer who worked for equal rights and suffrage, who helped write the Equal Rights Amendment, co-founded this year
What is 1910?
Marcella Hayes began her military career as an ROTC cadet at the University of Wisconsin and went on to become the first Black female pilot in the U.S. military in this year
What is 1979?
Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s First Lady for 12 years and later she served in this position, where she was instrumental in securing passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What is the U.S. delegate to the United Nations?
Brigadier General Wilma Vaught was the female Brigadier General who was the driving force behind the establishment of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Building in Arlington Cemetery which opened in this year
What is 1997?