Hidden Figures
What state did Katherine Johnson grow up in?
West Virginia
What is the term for separating facilities and by race and designating areas people can be based on race?
segregation
Dottie Henson refused to get on the train for baseball tryouts unless what ???
Kit was included too
True or False - Women gained liberation and independence after their service in WWII and entered the workforce in all areas/occupations.
False - Women were expected to be wives and mothers and be content/satisfied
True or False - A married woman could have her own passport in the 1920's.
False - she would have a passport under her husband's name, ex. Mrs. Michael Englbrecht
What did Mary Jackson aspire to be at NASA?
engineer
She was 15 years old when she refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested!
Claudette Colvin
Marla was initially rejected as a candidate for tryouts, why???
she wasn't viewed as pretty enough
What is a MRS Degree?
Go to college to find a husband and become a Mrs.
Margaret Sanger was an activist who worked tirelessly for women to have access to this safe form of oral contraception.
the pill or birth control pill
What did Dorothy Vaughn teach herself to master thus making herself an asset to NASA?
IBM computer
She became the face of the Civil Rights Movement and the Montgomery Bus Boycott when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and was arrested.
Rosa Parks
What annoying line did Stilwell often recite from the dugout that incensed Jimmy Dugan?
"You're gonna lose."
Who are the Mad Men?
Men in advertising on Madison Avenue - NYC. They created the ads of the 1950's that often portrayed women in a sexist light.
She was in love with Clyde Barrow and loyally stuck with him through multiple robberies and murders until law enforcement ambushed them.
Bonnie Parker
What astronaut did the ladies of NASA help complete a safe mission to space?
John Glenn
In Iron Jawed Angels, Ida Wells refused to do this ??? in the women's march for voting rights.
march at the back in a segregated section
What war was being fought when the ladies professional baseball league existed?
WWII
What is the term for advertising, radio messages, movies that aim to get people to think, feel, or act in a particular way? We have examined posters.
propaganda
Longest serving first lady of the US and champion of women's and civil rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt
After the successful Atlas mission, what history making mission did Katherine Johnson work on at NASA?
moon landing
Why did Mary Jackson need to petition the court in Hidden Figures?
She needed to attend an all white high school for classes to become an engineer at NASA.
The ladies professional baseball league has a special wing honoring them at this place?
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY
What is the term for neighborhoods outside of the city in the 1950's - picture houses with white picket fences, kids playing, car in the driveway ...
We read a packet about the women who lived there.
Suburban
Independent and bold 1920's women, she danced the Charleston, socialized at speakeasies with men ...
Flapper