Women's History Contest - Famous African American Women
Match the pictures of famous African American Women posted on the glass wall in the Library with the descriptions of the women below.  All correct entries will join a drawing for the prize.  Please make sure to enter your SCHOOL email address.  It isn't cheating to Google to learn more about these amazing women!

Photos: Cristi Smith-Jones of Kent, Washington, dressed her daughter, Lola, as iconic black women, and shared these recreated photos on Twitter. All descriptions are adapted from Wikipedia.
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17.Is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. On June 30, 2015, she became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history. *
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18. Was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. She record more than 64 albums. Beyoncé & Alicia Keys both say they were influenced by her. Mrs. London heard her sing in 1986. *
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23. Was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays including Their eyes were watching God.   She was  a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. *
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20. She was the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, as well as the first woman to appear in a United States presidential debate. *
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15. She founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, was the president of the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration Negro Division. She advised president Franklin D. Roosevelt, She was the only African American woman to help create the United Nations.  Hint: the representation of her photo is not precise because the little girl is only wearing two strands of pearls. *
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14. Born in St. Louis MO, this woman moved to France in the 1920s and soon became one of Europe's most popular and highest-paid cabaret performers. She worked for the French Resistance during World War II, and during the 1950s and '60s worked to fight segregation and racism in the US. *
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4. A political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of over ten books on class, feminism, and the U.S. prison system. *
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Grade (What grade are you in?) *
12. This granddaughter of slaves, played a major role in three of the 20th century’s most influential civil rights groups: the NAACP, SCLC and SNCC. Her nickname was “Fundi,” a Swahili word meaning a person who teaches a craft to the next generation. *
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24. Is an American civil rights activist, and was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.  She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell. *
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She was a civil rights leader,  focusing on issues of African-American women, unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. As a teen she marched in Times Square shouting "stop the lynching." She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years.  If you are looking at the pictures you may agree she looked great in flowered hats. *
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11. A woman of color, who along with her white husband, was sentenced to a year in prison for marrying violating Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924. In 1967 The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the couple’s favor, overturning their convictions and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. *
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10. Is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. *
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6. Was an investigative journalist and one of the founders of the NAACP. She co-owned and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper documenting lynching in the United States. She exposed lynching as a barbaric practice of whites in the South used to intimidate and oppress African Americans. *
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19. A trained civil rights activist her civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. *
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2. Was active in civil rights in the 1960s. She was also a singer who used music in her civil rights work. She went to grad school in Boston where she met her famous husband, who was assassinated. *
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9. Was considered the wealthiest African-American businesses woman and wealthiest self-made woman in America at the time of her death in 1919. She got rich by creating cosmetics and hair care products for black women *
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22. Was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. In 1988, she won the Pulitzer Prize for one of her novels and she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Our library has many of her books! One book translates into Portuguese as O olho mais azul. *
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7. She was an early American civil aviator and the first woman of African-American descent to hold a pilot license. She was also the first black person to earn an international pilot's license. *
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8. She was a voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party. Her speech at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. She also organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). *
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25. Mathematician made famous by the film Hidden Figures *
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3. This woman was enslaved but successfully petitioned a CA court for her freedom in 1860. She was a nurse, midwife, and business woman who Founded the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, California.(Hint: She lived a LONG time ago so look for very old fashioned clothing.) *
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1. A civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. *
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 21.One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, this poet, born in Knoxville TN, is a professor at Virginia Tech.  Our library owns four books of her poetry. *
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13. She was an American poet, author, and teacher. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. We have one book of poetry in our library with her poems. Her three syllable first name even sounds poetic.   *
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16. Was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. She grew up speaking Dutch as her first language. She was born into slavery, escaped with her daughter and went to court to recover her son. She became the first black woman to win a case against a white man. Visited Abington to give an abolition speech at Island Grove. Was included in Smithsonian magazine's list of the "100 Most Significant Americans of All Time" *
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