QUIZ

Women’s History Month

Based on a quiz published by LWVUS

QUESTION #1

Which voting rights advocate battled racial segregation and voter suppression while founding the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party?

a. Claudette Colvin 

b. Sarah Remond 

c. Ella Baker 

d. Fannie Lou Hamer

ANSWER #1

D. Fannie Lou Hammer

1964 - Co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) as the Mississippi Democratic Party only allowed whites to participate

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1964 Democratic National Convention – Refused compromise of seating only 2 MFDP members. Hamer’s televised speech brought national attention to the issue, putting pressure on President and Congress for the 1965 Votings Right Act.

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1968 Democratic National Convention – MFDP seated at convention after the DNC credentials committee banned seating delegations that had been chosen through racial discrimination.

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QUESTION #2

Which of these First Ladies was a delegate to the United Nations?

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a. Laura Bush

b. Lou Hoover 

c. Eleanor Roosevelt 

d. Lady Bird Johnson

ANSWER #2

C. Eleanor Roosevelt

President Harry Truman appointed Roosevelt to the U.S. delegation to the newly formed U.N. at the end of 1945.

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Roosevelt served until 1952.

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In April 1946, she became chair of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, and took on the task of drafting a human rights declaration for the world.

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The General Assembly adopted the Declaration on Human Rights on December 10, 1948.

QUESTION #3

The matrilineal Haudenosaunee government is also believed to be...

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a. The inspiration for the US system of government 

b. The oldest living participatory democracy 

c. A model for suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott 

d. All of the above

 (Note: Haudenosaunee named Iroquois by the French)

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ANSWER #3

D. All of the above

Haudenosaunee Confederacy Logo

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy was initially composed of 5 nations - Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas - in the Hudson River area. In 1722, the Tuscarora nation moved north from North Carolina and Virginia and joined the confederacy.

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Each nation has a council with Chiefs chosen by the Clan Mother a for internal affairs.

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The Grand Council, composed of representatives from each clan within the member nations, deals with issues affecting the nations within the confederacy.

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QUESTION #4

Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman elected to a state Senate, served in the state of...

a. California 

b. Texas 

c. New York 

d. Idaho

ANSWER #4

B. Texas

Opening speech for Nixon Impeachment

Hearings

Barbara Jordan First’s

• 1966 – First Black State Senator in US
• 1972 – First Black woman in US to preside over a legislative body when elected Texas Senate president pro tempore
• 1972 - First Black Congresswoman from the deep south
• 1976 - First woman and the first Black keynote speaker at a Democratic National Convention.

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QUESTION #5

Suffragist and anti-xenophobia advocate Mabel Ping-Hua Lee once famously led a suffrage parade while...

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a. Wearing an American flag fashioned as a dress

b. Tossing donuts to the crowd 

c. Riding horseback through the streets 

d. Disguised as a famous local politician

ANSWER #5

C. Riding horseback through the streets

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In 1912, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, age 16, she led a suffrage parade of 10,000+ down 5^th Avenue in New York riding a white horse and wearing a three-cornered hat in the colors of the British suffrage movement: purple to symbolize that the cause of suffrage was noble; white for purity; and green, the color of spring

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Born in Born in Canton (now Guangzhou), China, in 1896, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee was prohibited from even becoming a citizen until the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion in 1943.

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QUESTION #6

Who is believed to be the first woman elected to public office (Superintendent of Schools) in the US?

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a. Julia C. Addington

b. Cora Belle Reynolds Anderson

c. Hattie Wyatt Caraway

d. Ella T. Grasso

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ANSWER #6

a. Julia C. Addington

1869 - elected Superintendent of Schools in Mitchell County, Iowa.

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She had been acting school superintendent just prior to the election

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Addington received the same number of votes as the Republican candidate, and the election was settled by a coin toss.

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Before assuming office, Addington wrote to the state superintendent of public instruction, A. S. Kissell, to verify whether she could legally hold office—and be paid—and whether her decisions would be legal and binding. Kissel consulted with the state attorney general, Henry O’Connor, who ruled that her election was legal since there was no explicit requirement in the law for a candidate for this office to be male. 

QUESTION #7

Patsy Mink ran for President of the US in 1972 on what stance?

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a. Pro-education

b. Anti-war

c. Anti-racism

d. Pro-tax reform

ANSWER #7

B. Anti-war

Patsy Takemoto Mink (R – Hawaii)

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• the first woman of color elected to Congress (1964)

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• author of Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act

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• presidential campaign was focused on Oregon, where she, an opponent of the Vietnam War, got on the ballot to garner attention for the antiwar cause.

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QUESTION #8

In addition to being the first Latina in Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was also the first Republican to support...

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a. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

b. The Marriage Equality Act

c. The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act

d. The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act

ANSWER #8

B. The Marriage Equality Act

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – Florida)

• born in Havana, Cuba, and emigrated to the United States at age 7
• 1982 - first Latina elected to Florida's State legislature
• 1986 – first Latina elected to Florida’s Senate
• 1989 – first Latina elected to US House of Representatives (served until 2019)
• First congressional Republican to co-sponsor a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act

QUESTION #9

The first suffrage group for Black women, formed by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, was called...

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a. The Alpha Suffrage Club

b. The Beta Club for the Vote

c. The Beta Phi Suffrage Club

d. The Alpha Club for the Vote

ANSWER #9

A. The Alpha Suffrage Club

Ida B. Wells-Burnett

• 1862 – born into slavery in Mississippi
• 1889 – became co-owner of Memphis Free Speech and Headlight Newspaper to continue investigating lynchings
• 1892 - Newspaper office burned by mob and driven from Memphis
• 1913 - Founded Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago
• 1913 – When the Alpha Suffrage Club was delegated to the back of the Washington DC Suffrage parade, Wells stepped into the White Illinois delegation as they passed by

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QUESTION #10

Who wrote the Equal Rights Amendment?

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a. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b. Lucy Stone and Elizabeth Blackwell

c. Lucretia Mott and Lucy Burns

d. Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman

ANSWER #10

D. Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman

Alice Paul

Crystal Eastman

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