Women's History Month Trivia

Who established the National Council of Negro Women, and served as an advisor on minority affairs to President Franklin D. Roosevelt?

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Susan McKinney Stewart

• Ida B Wells

• Fannie Lou Hammer

Who was the first woman to run for President of the United States (1872)?

• Emmeline Pankhurst

• Marie Curie

• Victoria Woodhull

• Susan B. Anthony

Who opened up social work as a profession for women, and also won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize for her anti-war organizing work?

• Angela Burdett-Coutts

• Jane Addams

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Francis Perkins

What woman was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

• Sophia B. Packard

• Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• Toni Morrison

• Loraine Hansberry

Who wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment, in 1923?

• Nancy Lopez

• Marie Stopes

• Alice Paul

• Carry Chapman Catt

Who was the first African-American woman elected to Congress?

• Mary Church Terrell

• Shirley Chisholm

• Josephine Butler

Who was the first Asian-American woman ever elected to hold a statewide office in the United States?

• Anna May Wong

• March Fong Eu

• Patsy Takemoto Mink

What woman was turned down by 29 medical schools before being accepted as a student, graduated at the head of her class, and became the first licensed woman doctor in the U.S.?

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Amelia Earhart

• Jane Austen

Who spoke out for the advancement of American Indians' rights from speaker's platforms nationwide and before Congressional committees in the 1880s?

• Susan La Flesche

• Lozen

• Sarah Winnemucca

Who was Chair of the Board and publisher of The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine, and also oversaw six broadcasting stations?

• Katherine Graham

• Dolores Huerta

• Rosalind Franklin