Hidden Figures
What state did Katherine Johnson grow up in?
West Virginia
What amendment granted women the right to vote?
19
Dottie Henson refused to get on the train for baseball tryouts unless what ???
Kit was included too
During what war did Alice Paul and suffragettes fight for the right to vote?
WWI
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
What is the term for right to vote? (sounds painful but it's not!)
suffrage
Marla was initially rejected as a candidate for tryouts, why???
she wasn't viewed as pretty enough
True or False - women could be doctors and serve in the US Army during WWI?
False - they could be nurses or serve as doctors in the French Army
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
What annoying line did Stilwell often recite from the dugout that incensed Jimmy Dugan?
"You're gonna lose."
WASPS were women ??? during WWII
What occupation?
pilots
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
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
Who was the US president when the 19th Amendment was ratified?
Woodrow Wilson
The ladies professional baseball league has a special wing honoring them at this place?
TRUE!!!
Independent and bold 1920's women, she danced the Charleston, socialized at speakeasies with men ...
Flapper