Celebrating Women of Character, Courage, and Commitment

2014
Honoree Quiz
1. Who wrote A Voice from the South?
2. Who was an American Indian Peace
Maker?
3. Who provided women with a highlevel of secretarial training?
4. Who wrote Puerto Rican Women?
5. Who established the Old Lesbian
Oral Herstory Project?
6. Who was the pharmacologist who
refused to approve thalidomide?
7. Who graduated first in her class
from Gallaudet University?
8. Who became the first disabled
woman elected to Congress?
9. Who established the first residential
shelter for adult female survivors of
human trafficking?
10. Who served as a White House
Communications Director?
11. Who is a leading civil rights trial
attorney?
12. Who established the first rape crisis
center in Florida?
Answers to Women’s History IQ Test:
Celebrating
Women of Character,
Courage, and Commitment
This year’s theme, Celebrating Women
of Character, Courage, and Commitment, honors the extraordinary and
often unrecognized determination
and tenacity of women. Against social
convention and often legal restraints,
women have created a legacy that
expands the frontiers of possibility for
generations to come. They have demonstrated their character, courage and
commitment as mothers, educators,
institution builders, business, labor,
political and community leaders, relief
workers, women religious, and CEOs.
Their lives and their work inspire girls
and women to achieve their full potential and encourage boys and men
to respect the diversity and depth of
women’s experience.
For more information about the 2014
Honorees and the 2014 theme, please
visit www.nwhp.org.
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organization committed to recognizing and celebrating
the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by
providing information and educational materials.
March is National Women’s
History Month 2014
Celebrating
Women
of
Character,
Courage,
and
Commitment
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1. Anna Julia Cooper
2. Chipeta
3. Katharine Ryan Gibbs
4. Carmen Delgado Votaw
5. Arden Eversmeyer
6. Frances Oldham Kelsey
7. Agatha Tiegel
8. Tammy Duckworth
9. Jaida Im
10. Ann Lewis
11. Lisa Taylor .
12. Roxy O’Neal Bolton
Celebrating Women of Character, Courage & Commitment
Chipeta (1843 – 1924)
Indian Rights Advocate and Diplomat
Chipeta served as a wise and
contrary advisor to her husband,
a Ute Indian leader. She was a
peacemaker, often giving food
to starving white families.
Anna Julia Cooper
(1858 – 1964)
African American Educator and Author
Anna J. Cooper was an author,
educator, speaker, and among the
leading intellectuals of her time.
Born into enslavement, she wrote
“A Voice from the South,” widely
considered one of the first articulations of Black feminism.
Agatha Tiegel Hanson
(1873 – 1959)
Educator, Author, and Advocate
for Deaf Community
Agatha Tiegel Hanson was a
teacher, poet, and advocate for
the deaf community. Unable to
hear and blind in one eye, she
never allowed her disabilities to
hold her back as demonstrated by
graduating first in her class
at Gallaudet University .
Katharine Ryan Gibbs
(1863 – 1934)
Women’s Employment Pioneer
Katharine Ryan Gibbs founded
Katharine Gibbs School in 1911
to provide women with highlevel secretarial training and the
opportunity to earn their own
incomes.
Frances Oldham Kelsey
(1914 – Present)
Pharmacologist and Public
Health Activist
Ann Lewis (1937– Present)
Women’s Rights Organizer and
Women’s History Advocate
Frances Oldham Kelsey as the
Food and Drug Administration’s
(FDA) pharmacologist refused
to approve thalidomide, a drug
that was later proved to cause
severe birth defects
Ann Lewis is a leader of progressive political reform focusing
on the importance of personal
engagement, social justice and
women’s rights who served as a
White House Communications
Director.
Roxcy O’Neal Bolton
(1926 – Present)
20th Century Women’s Rights Pioneer
Jaida Im (1961– Present)
Advocate for Survivors of
Human Trafficking
Roxcy O’Neal Bolton is a
lifelong advocate for women’s
rights. Founder of Florida’s first
battered women’s shelter and
the nation’s first hospital-based
Rape Treatment Center. Bolton
led the effort to create the
Women’s Park in Miami.
Arden Eversmeyer
(1931 – Present)
The Old Lesbian Oral Herstory
Project Founder
Arden Eversmeyer founded
the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory
Project (1999), to ensure that
the stories of lesbians born in
the first part of the 20th century
are recorded in history
Carmen Delgado Votaw
(1935 – Present)
International Women’s Rights Activist
Carmen Delgado Votaw is a
leading advocate for women’s
rights both nationally and internationally. She wrote “Puerto
Rican Women,” a bilingual
women’s history book.
Jaida Im founded Freedom
House, the first residential shelter
for adult female survivors of
human trafficking, in Northern
California in 2010.
Tammy Duckworth
(1968 – Present)
Member of Congress and Iraq War Veteran
Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Representative from Illinois, is an Iraq
War veteran and former Assistant
Secretary of Veterans Affairs. In
2014, she became the first disabled woman elected to serve in
the House of Representatives
Lisa Taylor (1974 – Present)
Civil Rights Attorney
Lisa Taylor is a leading civil
rights trial attorney who works
to ensure that civil rights laws are
enforced around the country. She
became a lawyer out of a strong
desire to serve those who could
not serve themselves.