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