In 1955, Rosa Parks started an important fight against racial segregation by doing what?
Hiring Black women bus drivers for the first time.
Sitting in the "Whites" section in a cafe in Alabama.
Taking her daughter to attend an all-White school.
Refusing to move to the "Colored" section in back of the bus
Why did the mathematician Katherine Johnson win the Congressional Gold Medal?
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.
Her calculations helped NASA send U.S. astronauts 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 woman to become an airplane pilot.
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 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.
What important medical procedure did Dr. Patricia Bath invent?
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.
Heart transplant surgery.
What Black and mixed-race female singer has won 28 Grammy Awards?
Aretha Franklin
Beyoncé
Tina Turner
Mariah Carey
Mae Jemison was a doctor and an engineer. She was the first African-American woman to do what?
Become an astronaut and travel to space.
Created the League of Black American Businesswomen.
Become a top executive at Amazon.com.
Invent shelf-stable milk, which didn't need refrigeration.
Alexa Canady became famous in 1981 when she became what?
The first African American female neurosurgeon.
The first Black female doctor in the Antarctic.
The Queen of Soul--the #1 female Soul singer in the U.S.
The first African American female ambassador to Algeria.
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.