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I am a poet. I was the author of the first poem, Bars Fight, a ballad published in 1855. Who am I?
A. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
B. Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
C. Lucy Prince Terry
D. Maria Stewart
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I am an abolitionist. I was the first slave to successfully sue for my freedom that encouraged the state of Massachusetts to abolish slavery in 1781. Who am I?
A. Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Betts)
B. Harriet E. Wilson
C. Cathay Williams
D. Hazel Harrison
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I am a poet. I was the first published poet (Poems On Various Subjects, Religion, and Morals in 1773), and the first woman whose writings helped create the genre of African American literature. Who am I?
A. Elizabeth Keckley
B. Phillis Wheatley
C. Lucy Prince Terry
D. Edmonia Lewis
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I am a preacher from the 1800s. I was the first to petition the African Methodist Episcopal Church (under the founder, Richard Allen) for authorization to preach in 1820. Who am I?
A. Jarena Lee
B. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
C. Sojourner Truth
D. Bessie Coleman
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I am an organizational founder. I was the founder of the first Black Religious Order in the United States in 1829. Who am I?
A. Charlotte Forten Grimke
B. Mary Elizabeth Lang
C. Madame C.J. Walker
D. Nella Larsen
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I am an abolitionist and Woman's Right Activist most widely known for my extemporaneous speech, Ain't I a Woman spoken was the first to speak at the Ohio Women's Right Convention in 1851. Additionally, I was the first to have a sculpture permanently placed in the Emancipation Hall of the capitol building
A. Sojourner Truth
B. Phillis Wheatley
C. Ida B. Wells
D. Charlotte Bass
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I am a journalist, lecturer, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist, and was the first to address a mixed gender and race audience on the topic of abolition in Boston on September 21, 1832. Who am I?
A. Elizabeth Freeman
B. Maria Stewart
C. Mary Ann Shadd Cary
D. Mary Burnett Talbert
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I am a fashion designer, was a slave who purchased my freedom and became the first to serve as a personal confidante, companion, and dress designer for Mary Todd Lincoln (wife of President Abraham Lincoln). Who am I?
A. Mary Church Terrell
B. Elizabeth Keckley
C. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
D. Lucy Prince Terry
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I am a concert artist. I was the first to win recognition outside the United States (England), when I gave a command performance for Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace in 1853. Who am I?
A. Eva Jessye
B. Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
C. Ethel Waters
D. Marian Anderson
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I am an abolitionist, humanitarian, and Civil War Spy. I was the first to become a conductor of the Underground Railroad and the first African-American to be honored on a U.S. Postage Stamp. Who am I?
A. Anna Julia Cooper
B. Harriet Tubman
C. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
D. Jarena Lee
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I am an anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher and lawyer. I was the first Newspaper woman editor. I began publishing a weekly paper, The Provincial Freeman in 1853, whose motto was, "self-reliance is the true road to independence." Who am I?
A. Marian Anderson
B. Maggie Lena Walker
C. Mary Ann Shadd Carey
D. Madame C.J. Walker
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I am a poet, abolitionist, orator and author. My story, The Two Offers was the first short story published in 1859. Who Am I?
A. Phylicia Rashad
B. Mahalia Jackson
C. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
D. Jarena Lee
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I am an author. I was the first novelist, as well as the first to publish a novel, Or Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black published in 1859; however, was not widely known. Who am I?
A. Bessie Coleman
B. Eva Jessye
C. Harriett E. Wilson
D. Florence Beatrice Smith Price
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I am an educator, abolitionist, and feminist. I was the first to become a college professor at Wilberforce University in 1859. Who am I?
A. Eva Jessye
B. Harriet E. Wilson
C. Sarah James Woodson Early
D. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
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I am abolitionists, a feminist figure, and educator. I was the first to graduate from college, completing a Ladies Literacy Course from Oberlin College in 1850. Who Am I?
A. Maria Stewart
B. Sarah James Woodson Early
C. Cathay Williams
D. Lucy Stanton
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I am a physician. I was the first to earn a M.D. degree from the New England Female Medical College in 1895. Who am I?
A. Hazel Harrison
B. Chalotte E. Ray
C. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
D. Florence Beatrice Smith Price
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I am a postal service worker. I was the first to become a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Montana in 1895, at approximately sixty years of age. Who Am I?
A. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
B. Mary (Stagecoach) Fields
C. Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
D. Mamie Smith
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I am an anti-slavery activists, poet, and educator. I was the first teacher in the world to work with white students at the Salem Public School in 1855. Who am I?
A. Ida B. Wells
B. Charlotte Forten Grimke
C. Eva Jessye
D. Harriett Tubman
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I am an educator and missionary. I was the first to be appointed in the college preparatory department at Oberlin College in 1860 as a faculty member. I also was the first to receive the title of principal at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia in 1869 and have a college named in my honor. Who am I?
A. Mary Ann Shadd Carey
B. Fannie Jackson Coopin
C. Charlotte Forten Grimke
D. Phillis Wheatley
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I am an educator. I was the first to earn a bachelors degree from Oberlin College in 1862. . Who am I?
A. Mary Burnett Talbert
B. Mary Elizabeth Lang
C. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
D. Mary Jane Patterson
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I am a Buffalo Soldier. I was the first documented female to serve (enlisted as a male, Williams Cathay) in the U.S. Army in 1866. I became the first and only know female Buffalo Soldier. Who am I?
A. Susan Taylor King
B. Elizabeth Keckley
C. Cathay Williams
D. Mary (Stagecoach) Fields
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I am a publisher, journalist, and civil right activist. I was the first publisher of an Afriacan-American newspaper, Women's Era, published by and for African-American women in 1888. Who am I?
A. Jarena Lee
B. Ida B. Wells
C. Jackie "Moms" Mabley
D. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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I am an artist, was the first to become a professional sculptor in the United States during the 1860s. Who am I?
A. Fannie Jackson Coopin
B. Florence Beatrice Smith Price
C. Anna Julia Cooper
D. Edmonia Lewis
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I am a nurse. I was the first registered nurse in the United States in 1879. Who am I?
A. Mary Church Terrell
B. Maggie Lena Walker
C. Mary Elizabeth Mahoney
D. Mary Burnett Talbert
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I am a nurse, writer, and teacher. I was the first nurse to serve with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War (1861 & 1865). Who am I?
A. Bessie Coleman
B. Susan King Taylor
C. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
D. Sarah James Woodson Early
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I am an American lawyer, was the first to practice law in America in 1872. I was a graduate of Howard Law School. Who am I?
A. Hattie McDaniel
B. Marian Anderson
C. Charlotte E. Ray
D. Susan King Taylor
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I am an inventor and was the first to receive a patent issued by the U.S. Patent Office in 1185. Who Am I?
A. Maggie Lena Walker
B. Annie Turnbo Malone
C. Sarah Goode
D. Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
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I am a famous educator. I was the founder of the first school for black children in Augusta, GA in 1883. Who am I?
A. Mary Elizabeth Lang
B. Lucy Craft Laney
C. Sarah James Woodson Early
D. Crystal Byrd Faucet
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I am a black feminist, educator, and author. I was the first to publish a black feminist analysis, A Voice from the South in 1892. Who am I?
A. Jarena Lee
B. Charlotte Forten Grimke
C. Anna Julia Cooper
D. Harriett Wilson
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I am a civil rights activist and journalist. I was described as a crusader of justice, and a defender of democracy. I was the first writer to document lynching of African-Americans in the South in the 1890s. Who am I?
A. Elizabeth Keckly
B. Ida B. Wells
C. Charlotte Forten Grimke
D. Mary Burnett Talbert
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I am a civil rights activist. I was the first to be appointed to the Washington, D.C. school board in 1895. Additionally, I was the first president of the newly formed National Association of Colored Women in 1896. Who am I?
A. Mary Church Terrell
B. Bessie Coleman
C. Ethel Waters
D. Anna Julia Cooper
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I am a teacher and businesswoman. I was the first to become a bank president (St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Richmond, VA) in 1903. Who am I?
A. Eva Jessye
B. Maggie Lena Walker
C. Mary (Stagecoach) Fields
D. Madame C.J. Walker
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I am a civil rights and anti-lynching activist. I was the first to receive the NAACP Spingam Medal Award in 1922. Who am I?
A. Ida B. Wells
B. Elizabeth Keckley
C. Florence Beatrice Smith Price
D. Mary Burnett Talbert
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I am a dentist. I was the first to earn a dental surgeon degree in 1890 when I graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Who am I?
A. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
B. Fannie Jackson Coppin
C. Ella Myers PhIllips Stewart
D. Ida Gray Nelson Rollins
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I am a civil rights activist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. I was regarded as the first to become a self-made millionaire in America. Who am I?
A. Lillian Evanti
B. Ida B. Wells
C. Mary Church Terrell
D. Madame C.J. Walker
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I am an entrepreneur, philanthropist, scientist, and mentor to Madame C.J. Walker. I was the first U.S. millionaire based upon a 1920 report reflecting my company owning fourteen million dollars in assets. Who am I?
A. Annie Turnbo Malone
B. Madame CJ Walker
C. Maggie Lena Walker
D. Elizabeth Keckley
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I am a world famous soprano knows as the Black Patti. I was the first to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1892. Who am I?
A. Sissieretta Jones
B. Marian Anderson
C. Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
D. Florence Beatrice Price
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I am a newspaper publisher-editor and civil rights activist. I was the first to be named to the Progressive Party as a nominee for the Vice President of the United States in 1952.
A. Sojourner Truth
B. Edmonia Lewis
C. Nella Larsen
D. Charlotta Bass
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I am an American Professor. I was the first to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society in 1899. Who am I?
A. Harriet Tubman
B. Sarah James Woodson Early
C. Mary Annette Anderson
D. Lucy Prince Terry
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I am an educator and civil rights activist. I was the first president of the National Council of Negro Women, founded in 1935. I was the first to head a federal agency, Director of the Division of Negro Affairs, an appointment made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. Additionally, I was the first to start a school, Bethune-Cookman College located in Daytona, FL in 1904. Who am I?
A. Lillian Evanti
B. Mary McLeod Bethune
C. Maria Stewart
D. Hattie McDaniel
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I am an orchestra concert pianist. I was the first fully American-trained musician to appear with a European orchestra in the 1920s. Who am I?
A. Hazel Harrison
B. Phillis Wheatley
C. Harriett E. Wilson
D. Hattie McDaniel
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I am a jazz, blues artist. I was the first performer to make a phonograph record, paving the way for all the classic blues women of the 1920’s and beyond. Who am I?
A. Florence Mills
B. Mamie Smith
C. Marian Anderson
D. Mary Church Terrell
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I am an educator, often referred to as the “guiding light” of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. I am the conceptual founding mother of this sorority, (the first Greek Letter organization founded by and for African-American college trained women) established at Howard University in 1908. Who am I?
A. Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
B. Sarah James Woodson Early
C. Nella Larsen
D. Mary McLeod Bethune
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I am a songwriter and pianist. I was the first to have my work performed by a major symphony in the late 1930s. Who am I?
A. Lucy Prince Terry
B. Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
C. Florence Beatrice Smith Price
D. Maggie Lena Walker
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I am an educator and mathematician. I was the first to earn a PhD in mathematics in 1943 from the Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Who am I?
A. Mary Jane Patterson
B. Anna Julia Cooper
C. Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes
D. Fannie Jackson Coppin
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I am a Lyric soprano. I was the first African-American to perform with a major European opera company in the 1920s, while simultaneously maintaining deep ties to my native home, Washington, D.C. Who am I?
A. Lillian Evanti
B. Charlotte E. Ray
C. Harriet Tubman
D. Eva Jessye
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I am a novelist. I was the first to win a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing in 1930. Who am I?
A. Anna Julia Cooper
B. Ethel Waters
C. Nella Larsen
D. Lillian Evanti
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I am a pharmacist. I was the first to graduate from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Pennsylvania in 1916. Who am I?
A. Edmonia Lewis
B. Charlotte E. Ray
C. Lucy Craft Laney
D. Ella Myers Phillips Stewart
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I am a pilot and was the first to hold an international pilot license acquired in 1921. Who am I?
A. Bessie Coleman
B. Lillian Evanti
C. Phillis Wheatley
D. Jarena Lee
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I am a former teacher. I was the first state legislator in the United States when I was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representative in 1938. Who Am I?
A. Maria Stewart
B. Florence Mills
C. Hattie McDaniel
D. Crystal Byrd Faucet
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I am a comedian. I was the first to establish myself as a single act in a standup comedy during the early 1960s. Who am I?
A. Charlotte E. Ray
B. Edmonia Lewis
C. Jackie "Moms" Mabley
D. Harriet E. Wilson
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I am a choral director, actress, author, and poet. I was the first to win international distinction as a director of a professional choral group. Who am I?
A. Eva Jessye
B. Bessie Coleman
C. Madame C.J. Walker
D. Charlotte E. Ray
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I am a film actress. I was the first to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for my performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind in 1939. Who am I?
A. Ida B. Wells
B. Susan King Taylor
C. Edmonia Lewis
D. Hattie McDaniel
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I am a film, television, theater Actress, and singer, was the first to appear on radio on April 21, 1922. Who am I?
A. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
B. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
C. Ethel Waters
D. Hazel Harrison
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I am an entertainer and dancing jazz performer. I was the first international female superstar when I appeared in the Plantation Review in England in 1923. Who am I?
A. Mamie Smith
B. Florence Beatrice Smith Price
C. Florence Mills
D. Ethel Waters
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I am a contralto singer. I was the first to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1955. Who am I?
A. Mary Church Terrell
B. Marian Anderson
C. Maria Steward
D. Jackie "Moms" Mabley
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I am a lawyer and civil rights activist. I was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated (1921), and was the first to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. Who am I?
A. Hattie McDaniel
B. Phillis Wheatley
C. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
D. Saddie Tanner Mossell Alexander
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I am an educator. I was the first to receive a Ph.D. in German from the University of Chicago in 1921. Who Am I?
A. Ida Burnett Wells
B. Anna Julia Cooper
C. Mary Church Terrell
D. Georgiana Simpson
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I am an educator and an organizational founder. I was the first national president of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. when elected in 1925. Who Am I?
A. Mary Lou Allison Little
B. Georgina Simpson
C. Lucy Stanton
D. Mary Ann Shadd Carey
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I am an educator and an athlete. I was a founder and the first president of Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in 1908. Additionally, I was the first to serve as dean of any American University (Howard) in 1922; and was the first to win a national sports title (tennis) from the American Tennis Association in 1917. Who Am I?
A. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
B. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
C. Lucy Diggs Slowe
D. Eva Dykes
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I am an educator. I was the first to earn a Ph.D. in English-Philosophy from Radcliff College in 1921. Who Am I?
A. Mary Lou Allison Little
B. Eva Beatrice Dykes
C. Charlotte E. Ray
D. Maggie Lena Walker
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I am an educator. I was a founder and served as the first president of the Alpha Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority in 1920, and I also became the sorority’s first national president. Who Am I?
A. Arizona Cleaver Stemons
B. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
C. Fannie Jackson Coppin
D. Susan King Taylor
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