Voting Rights
Women gained the right to vote in this year.
1920
1 in ___ women are diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.
8
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, sparking a boycott that helped lead to civil rights reforms.
Rosa Parks
The first female Vice President of the United States belongs to this Divine Nine Sorority.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
This Chicagoan became the first African American President of the United States.
Barack Obama
This landmark 1965 law banned literacy tests and other discriminatory practices that prevented Black Americans from voting
The Voting Rights Act
This is the age most women are recommended to begin regular mammogram screenings.
40
This organization, founded in 1909, has fought for African American civil rights through advocacy and legal action for over a century.
NAACP
This Greek organization holds the vision statement "Empowered Women Leading the World."
Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc.
His murder in 1955 and his mother’s bravery helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement.
Emmett Till
In 1961, the 23rd Amendment gave American citizens living in ____ the right to vote for president and vice president.
Washington DC
Name two lifestyle factors that can contribute to breast cancer.
Smoking, alcohol intake, lack of physical activity, and obesity.
In 2022, she became the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
This 1973 Supreme Court case granted women constitutional protection for the right to choose.
Roe v. Wade
This Chicago woman founded Hull House in 1889, one of America's first settlement houses.
Jane Addams
He was a U.S. Congressman and civil rights leader who fought tirelessly for voting rights and led the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
John Lewis
Anti-estrogen medications like Tamoxifen fall into this category of breast cancer treatment.
Hormone therapy
This singer made history last week by becoming the first artist to have Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in six different decades.
Michael Jackson
The Ivy League university was the first to admit women back in 1837.
Oberlin College
Taking place in 1866, this famous Chicago event became a turning point for workers' rights and is now tied to the creation of Labor Day internationally.
Haymarket Affair
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Largely because young people argued "if we are old enough to fight, we're old enough to vote."
The 26th Amendment
This ancient civilization recorded the earliest known description of breast cancer around ____.
2500 to 3000BC
This groundbreaking author became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Toni Morrison
She became the first woman to run for President of the United States, doing so in 1872. Long before women had the right to vote.
Victoria Woodhull
1n 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led marches in this Chicago neighborhood as a part of the Chicago Freedom Movement, pushing the city toward fair housing reform.
Marquette Park