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Learn about our Editorial Process Updated on July 03, 2019 1. She said: "Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge." Sojourner Truth. Hulton Archive / Getty Images Oprah Winfrey Marian Wright Edelman Maya Angelou Eleanor Roosevelt Michelle Obama Rosa Parks Correct Wrong Oprah Winfrey, journalist from Nashville, Tennessee, became the first African American syndicated talk show host, and the highest-earning woman in America. 2. Wearing leg braces as a child, she grew up to be an Olympic sprinter. Olympic Opening, 1960. Central Press/Getty Images Jessie Redmon Fauset Wilma Rudolph Althea Gibson Mary Ritter Beard Serena Williams Lynette Woodard Correct Wrong Wilma Rudolph's performance in track and field inspired a generation of athletes. 3. In 1913 in a major suffrage parade, black women marchers were asked Crowd at the March 1913 Suffrage March. Library of Congress to march at the back of the parade to dress in black instead of white to stay home to march with their state delegations Correct Wrong You can read about the march's demands on black women marchers, and what one woman did in response here: Black Women Sent to the Back of the March 4. Harlem Renaissance women writers published many stories in the: Harlem storefronts, 1938. Photo by Berenice Abbott.. Museum of the City of New York / Getty Images Woman's Journal Harlem Jive Atlantic Monthly Crisis Correct Wrong Jessie Redmon Fauset promoted many writers as literary editor for the Crisis. 5. What was the best-selling novel of the 19th century? Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Memories of an Emancipated Slave by Charlene Morris Beloved by Toni Morrison Correct Wrong Learn more about the 19th century's best-selling novelist and how she came to write this influential book that influenced a generation of abolitionists: Harriet Beecher Stowe 6. She starred in an all-black version of the play, Hello Dolly! Pearl Bailey Leontyne Price Josephine Baker Isadora Duncan Correct Wrong Pearl Bailey is known for her recordings, as well, and as a humanitarian. Also see: Leontyne Price Quotes Josephine Baker Josephine Baker Image Gallery Isadora Duncan 7. Phillis Wheatley is famous for being the first African American woman millionaire first African American female Senator first published African American poet first woman in America to vote in an election Correct Wrong Phillis Wheatley, a slave in Boston who had been born in Africa, learned to read and write and published a book of poems in 1773. 8. During the Civil War, she lectured in London on the realities of American slavery. Slaves on Hermitage plantation, Georgia. Buyenlarge/Getty Images Harriet Tubman Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Sarah Parker Remond Mary Ann Shadd Correct Wrong From a free black family in Massachusetts, Sarah Remond was friends with Charlotte Forten and visited escaped slaves William and Ellen Craft while she and they were in London. She helped persuade the British not to support the Confederacy. 9. The suffrage movement split after the Civil War, disagreeing over: whether African American women could belong to the suffrage organization whether to locate the movement's offices in a former slave state whether to put suffrage for women or suffrage for African Americans first whether women should have the federal vote or just vote in state elections Correct Wrong When a Constitutional amendment passed giving black males the right to vote, the coalition between those working for black suffrage and women's suffrage fractured. 10. First black female astronaut Mae Jemison said she was inspired by: First African American Shuttle Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison. Bettmann Archive / Getty Images I Spy Julia Their Eyes Were Watching God Star Trek Correct Wrong The figure of Lt. Uhura on the original series of Star Trek was a major inspiration to Mae Jemison. 11. This artist's lost statue "The Death of Cleopatra" was found where? Edmonia Lewis, The Death of Cleopatra. from a public domain image in a cellar at the Smithsonian in an art collection in Rome decorating the grave of a race horse on display at a night club Correct Wrong Edmonia Lewis, a sculptor of African American and Native American heritage, used the neoclassical genre to produce naturalistic images. Most of her work is lost. 12. Ida B. Wells-Barnett is best known for her work: Ida B. Wells-Barnett. R. Gates/Hulton Archive/Getty Images against lynching for public housing against woman suffrage for temperance Correct Wrong Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a reporter, wrote about racial injustice, and once was forcibly removed from a train becaue she would not move to the colored-only car. After an infamous lynching in Memphis in 1892, she took up the cause against lynching and had to flee to New York. 13. The DAR refused Marian Anderson their hall, so this member resigned: Marian Anderson Singing at Lincoln Memorial. Bettmann Archive / Getty Images Mary Washington Eleanor Roosevelt Edith Wilson Mary Church Terrell Correct Wrong First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution over this refusal, and made her resignation public. She then helped obtain the Lincoln Memorial for a concert by Marian Anderson. 14. Maggie Lena Walker of Richmond is known for her achievement as a track and field star silent movie actress bank president Civil War spy Correct Wrong Maggie Lena Walker was the first woman bank president in the United States, founding bank in Richmond, Virginia,in 1903. She was also involved with self-help and philanthropic work, founded an African American newspaper, and promoted racial pride. 15. Faye Wattleton was the first African American appointed to head Faye Wattleton, 2012. Earl Gibson III/WireImage/Getty Images Radcliffe College the Congressional Black Caucus American Woman Suffrage Association Planned Parenthood Federation of America Correct Wrong 16. She was US Ambassador to New Zealand: Carol Moseley Braun Fanny Elssler Josephine San Martin Hattie Caraway Correct Wrong Carol Moseley Braun was a Senator from 1992 to 1998 and an Ambassador from 1999 to 2001. 17. Zora Neale Hurston didn't publish her first stories because PhotoQuest / Getty Images she didn't have time to write until after she raised her four children her writing themes were "too white" for her black patrons her white patron supported her work on the condition that she not publish anything she was recovering from tuberculosis in a sanitarium Correct Wrong Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and other stories, studied anthropology at Barnard. When she worked as an ethnologist, her financial supporter, Mrs. Rufus Osgood Mason, insisted that Hurston not publish her work. 18. She sold pictures titled "I sell the shadow to support the substance." Audre Lorde Jackie Joyner-Kersee Georgia Douglas Johnson Sojourner Truth Correct Wrong As an itinerant speaker and preacher, Truth made her living from selling photographs (shadows) of herself. 19. She was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize: Maya Angelou Gwendolyn Brooks Molly Ivins Toni Morrison Correct Wrong Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois, won the Pultizer prize for Poetry in 1950. 20. The first African American woman lawyer admitted to the bar in the US was a key figure in the Brown v. Board of Education case married a newspaper publisher and wrote many articles on civil rights became a leader in the temperance movement moved to New York and taught public school in Brooklyn Correct Wrong Charlotte Ray found that there were no real opportunities in private practice in Washington DC as a "colored woman lawyer." So she returned to New York and taught school. Women of Black History: Quiz You got: % Correct. Study, study, study! Harriet Tubman lecturing from a stage. Drawing from about 1940. Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images That's not a very good score -- but then, not a lot of this history is taught in the standard curriculum. Below are some resources that can get you caught up on African American history and women. Share Your Results Share Flipboard Email Women of Black History: Quiz You got: % Correct. Good try! Maya Angelou in 2010. Riccardo S. Savi/WireImage/Getty Images African American history and women's history are often not part of the curriculum in school, so you'll need to study on your own! Below are some resources that can get you caught up on African American history and women Share Your Results Share Flipboard Email Women of Black History: Quiz You got: % Correct. Excellent! Statue of Harriet Tubman, Boston, Massachusetts. Kim Grant / Lonely Planet Images / Getty Images You did quite well, congratulations! Now you can add to your knowledge of African American women -- see some resources below. Share Your Results Share Flipboard Email Women of Black History: Quiz You got: % Correct. Perfect! Michelle Obama and Nancy Pelosi look on as a memorial bust of Sojourner Truth is unveiled.. Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla You got every question right - congratulations! Now you can add to your knowledge of African American women -- see some resources below. Share Your Results Share Flipboard Email