Barbara Vey

Celebrate Women's History Month
March 6, 2008

The public celebration of women's history in this country began in 1978 as "Women's History Week" in Sonoma County, California. The week including March 8, International Women's Day, was selected. In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) co-sponsored a joint Congressional resolution proclaiming a national Women's History Week. In 1987, Congress expanded the celebration to a month, and March was declared Women's History Month.

So how much do you know about famous women in history?  Take this short quiz and find out.

1.  Who dedicated her life to the study of chimpanzees?
a)  Isadora Duncan
b)  Margaret Mead
c)  Jane Goodall
d)  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

2.  Who is known for her work to ban landmines?
a)  Jane Addams
b)  Eleanor Roosevelt
c)  Princess Diana
d)  Helen Keller

3.  Who was the first woman on the Supreme Court?
a)  Ruth Bader Ginsburg
b)  Sandra Day O'Connor
c)  Pearl Bailey
d)  Barbara Milkulski

4.  Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and fly solo over the Pacific Ocean?
a)  Emily Dickinson
b)  Clara Barton
c)  Amy Johnson
d)  Amelia Earhart

5.  Who was a famous Holocaust diarist?
a)  Inge Auerbacher
b)  Johanna Hurwitz
c)  Anne Frank
d)  Edith Velmans

6)  Who's face is on the U.S. gold coin dollar?
a)  Susan B. Anthony
b)  Geronimo
c)  Sacagawea
d)  John F. Kennedy

7)  Who is known as the "mother of the civil rights movement?"
a)  Abigail Adams
b)  Rosa Parks
c)  Marian Anderson
d)  Lethe Jackson

8)  Who married her first cousin and later became the first lady?
a)  Dolley Madison
b)  Martha Custis Washington
c)  Mamie Eisenhower
d)  Eleanor Roosevelt

9)  Who founded the American Red Cross?
a)  Sally Louisa Tompkins
b)  Clara Barton
c)  Mary Todd Lincoln
d)  Dorthea Dix

10)  Who was the slave that became a conductor on the underground railroad?
a)  Harriet Tubman
b)  Hannah Valentine
c)  Elizabeth Johnson Harris
d)  Wilma Randolph

So, how'd you do?  Here's the answers:  1-c, 2-c, 3-b, 4-d, 5-c, 6-c, 7-b, 8-d, 9-b, 10-a

I have to admit that there was one that I got wrong 3 times.  I just couldn't figure it out, but now I'll never forget it.

I hope men and women alike join in the celebration of Women in History...past, present and future, not just this month, but always.

What women in history would you celebrate?

Bottom Line:  To all the women reading this blog today, I say, "Go out and make some history!"
                                                            
                                                  

Posted by Barbara Vey on March 6, 2008 | Comments (8)