NCNW 101
These initials make up the full name of the organization we're celebrating tonight.
What is the National Council of Negro Women or NCNW?
This educator, activist, and leader founded the National Council of Negro Women.
Who is Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune?
The NCNW chapter at Valdosta State University was chartered in this year.
What is 2013?
This civil rights activist famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1995.
Who is Rosa Parks?
These three action words summarize NCNW's mission.
What are Lead, Advocate, and Empower?
The National Council of Negro Women was founded in this year?
What is 1935?
Before founding NCNW, Mary McLeod Bethune established a school for African American girls in this Florida city in 1904?
What is Daytona Beach, Florida?
This special NCNW event officially welcomes new members into the organization.
What is Induction?
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
This monumental civil rights leader served as president of NCNW from 1957 to 1997.
Who is Dr. Dorothy I. Height?
NCNW works to lead, advocate for, and empower these women, along with their families and communities?
Who are women of African descent?
Mary McLeod Bethune was born in this U.S. state.
What is South Carolina?
This community-service activity allows VSU NCNW members to give back while helping keep the community clean.
What is Road Clean Up?
In 1968, she became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Dr. Dorothy Height helped organize this historic 1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C.
What is the March on Washington? (for Jobs and Freedom)
NCNW is known by this phase because it brings together different organizations working toward common goals.
What is organization of organizations?
In 1945, Mary McLeod Bethune participated in the founding conference of this international organization in San Francisco.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
This group of student officers helps lead VSU NCNW and oversee chapter operations, meetings, membership, and events.
What is the Executive Board (E-Board)?
This legendary singer is known as the Queen of Soul.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This NCNW civil rights initiative brought interracial groups of women together in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Wednesdays in Mississippi?
Name any TWO of NCNW's Core Four priorities.
What are Economic Empowerment, Education, Health Equity, and Social Justice? (Accept any two)
Mary McLeod Bethune advised this U.S. president and was part oh his Black Cabinet.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This process helps NCNW grow by encouraging new students to join and become active members.
What is Interest Meeting?
This author wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple.
Who is Alice Walker?
NCNW's national headquarters is located in this U.S city.
What is Washington, D.C.?