What Black and mixed-race female singer has won 28 Grammy Awards?
Tina Turner
Beyoncé
Aretha Franklin
Mariah Carey
In the early 1900s, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty to do what?
Become the first Black female millionaire.
Speak against lynching, the illegal killing of Blacks.
Launch her own line of hair straighteners and growers.
All of these.
Why did the mathematician Katherine Johnson win the Congressional Gold Medal?
Her calculations helped NASA send U.S. astronauts to space.
She figured out how to make computer microchips.
She helped the U.S. economy in the Great Depression.
She was the first African American woman college professor.
Mae Jemison was a doctor and an engineer. She was the first African-American woman to do what?
Become a top executive at Amazon.com.
Invent shelf-stable milk, which didn't need refrigeration.
Created the League of Black American Businesswomen.
Become an astronaut and travel to space.
Bessie Coleman grew up picking cotton and washing laundry in Texas. In 1921, why did she become famous?
She was the first Black female race car driver.
She was the first Black woman tennis champion.
She was the first Black woman in the Girl Scouts of America.
She was the first Black woman to become an airplane pilot.
In 1939 Jane Bolin was the first African American woman to do what?
Start a school for Black orphans (children without parents).
Become the secretary to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Run for Congress.
Become a judge and fight discrimination in the legal system.
In 1955, Rosa Parks started an important fight against racial segregation by doing what?
Taking her daughter to attend an all-White school.
Hiring Black women bus drivers for the first time.
Refusing to move to the "Colored" section in back of the bus
Sitting in the "Whites" section in a cafe in Alabama.
Alexa Canady became famous in 1981 when she became what?
The first African American female neurosurgeon.
The first African American female ambassador to Algeria.
The Queen of Soul--the #1 female Soul singer in the U.S.
The first Black female doctor in the Antarctic.
What important medical procedure did Dr. Patricia Bath invent?
Laser surgery to remove cataracts from people's eyes.
The use of pig kidneys in human surgery.
A specialized X-Ray machine to treat cancer.
Heart transplant surgery.
