Alexa Canady became famous in 1981 when she became what?
The Queen of Soul--the #1 female Soul singer in the U.S.
The first African American female ambassador to Algeria.
The first Black female doctor in the Antarctic.
The first African American female neurosurgeon.
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
Taking her daughter to attend an all-White school.
Sitting in the "Whites" section in a cafe in Alabama.
Hiring Black women bus drivers for the first time.
What important medical procedure did Dr. Patricia Bath invent?
Laser surgery to remove cataracts from people's eyes.
A specialized X-Ray machine to treat cancer.
Heart transplant surgery.
The use of pig kidneys in human surgery.
Why did the mathematician Katherine Johnson win the Congressional Gold Medal?
She was the first African American woman college professor.
Her calculations helped NASA send U.S. astronauts to space.
She helped the U.S. economy in the Great Depression.
She figured out how to make computer microchips.
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.
Become a judge and fight discrimination in the legal system.
Run for Congress.
What Black and mixed-race female singer has won 28 Grammy Awards?
Mariah Carey
Beyoncé
Tina Turner
Aretha Franklin
Bessie Coleman grew up picking cotton and washing laundry in Texas. In 1921, why did she become famous?
She was the first Black woman to become an airplane pilot.
She was the first Black woman in the Girl Scouts of America.
She was the first Black female race car driver.
She was the first Black woman tennis champion.
Mae Jemison was a doctor and an engineer. She was the first African-American woman to do what?
Invent shelf-stable milk, which didn't need refrigeration.
Become a top executive at Amazon.com.
Become an astronaut and travel to space.
Created the League of Black American Businesswomen.
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.
All of these.
Launch her own line of hair straighteners and growers.