Presidents

Question 1

1st

Answer 1

Sadie T.M Alexander 1919-1923

Question 2

2nd

Answer 2

Dorothy Pelham Beckley 1923-1926

Question 3

3rd

Answer 3

Ethel Lamay Calimese1926–1929

Question 4

4th

Answer 4

Anna Johnson Julian1929–1931

Question 5

5th

Answer 5

Gladys Byram Shepperd 1931–1933

Question 6

6th

Answer 6

Jeannette Tripplett Jones 1933–1935

Question 7

7th

Answer 7

Vivian Osborne Mars 1935-1939

Question 8

8th

Answer 8

Elsie Austin 1939-1944

Question 9

9th

Answer 9

Mae Wright Downs Allen Peck Williams 1944-1947

Question 10

10th

Answer 10

Dorothy Irene Height 1947-1956

Question 11

11th

Answer 11

Dorothy Penman Harrison 1956-1958

Question 12

12th

Answer 12

Jeanne Laveta Noble 1958-1963

Question 13

13th

Answer 13

Geraldine Pittman Woods 1963-1967

Question 14

14th

Answer 14

Frankie Muse Freeman 1967-1971

Question 15

15th

Answer 15

Lillian Pierce Benbow 1971-1975

Question 16

16th

Answer 16

Thelma Thomas Daley 1975-1979

Question 17

17th

Answer 17

Mona Humphries Bailey 1979-1983

Question 18

18th

Answer 18

Hortense Golden Canady 1983-1988

Question 19

19th

Answer 19

Yvonne Kennedy 1988-1992

Question 20

20th

Answer 20

Bertha Maxwell Roddey 1992-1996

Question 21

21st

Answer 21

Marcia Fudge 1996-2000

Question 22

22nd

Answer 22

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Boyd 2000-2004

Question 23

23rd

Answer 23

Louise Allen Rice 2004-2008

Question 24

24th

Answer 24

Cynthia Marie Antionette Butler-McIntyre 2008-2013

Question 25

25th

Answer 25

Paulette Camille Walker 2013-present

Question 26

Osceola Macarthy Adams

Answer 26

one of the first Black actresses on Broadway. She was the Director of the Harlem School of the Arts and directed the theatrical debuts of Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier.

Question 27

Sadie T. M. Alexander, Ph.D

Answer 27

1st National President (1919-1923), was the nation’s first woman to earn a Ph.D. in economics (1921). A distinguished attorney, she was among the founders of the National Bar Association (1925) and she was appointed to President Truman’s Commission on Civil Rights (1945).

Question 28

Tina Allen

Answer 28

sculptor and painter, sculpted a life-sized bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She was the conceptual designer of two major international projects: The International Children’s Peace Park and the Monumental Statue of Nelson Mandela. Allen received the Essence Award, the Stellar Award and the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award.

Question 29

Brigadier General Hazel Johnson Brown, Ph.D.

Answer 29

Brigadier General Hazel Johnson Brown, Ph.D., was the first African-American woman general in the United States Army.

Question 30

Selma Burke, Ph.D.

Answer 30

sculptor, won the 1943 Fine Arts Competition for the District of Columbia for a profile of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This artwork was adapted for the United States dime.

Question 31

Alexa Canady, M.D.,

Answer 31

at age 26 became the first Black woman neurosurgeon in the United States. She specializes in pediatric neurosurgery.

Question 32

Elizabeth Catlett

Answer 32

was an internationally acclaimed sculptor and lithographer. She was best known for her vast range of artwork, including prints and life-sized sculptures.

Question 33

Shirley Chisholm,

Answer 33

the first Black woman member of the U.S. Congress, was the first African-American and first woman to run as a major party candidate for the presidency of the United States.

Question 34

Ruby Dee Davis .

Answer 34

is an extraordinary actress with performance credits on stage, in film and on television. She has also written a collection of poetry.

Question 35

Myrlie Evers-Williams

Answer 35

is the Chairman Emerita of the Board for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Question 36

Frankie M. Freeman,

Answer 36

noted attorney and 14th National President (1967-1971), was the first woman appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Lyndon B. Johnson and served 16 years.

Question 37

Patricia Roberts Harris

Answer 37

served as Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.’s first Executive Director. She was also the first Black woman to be appointed ambassador to a European country (Luxembourg) and to be appointed to a presidential cabinet post as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). She was later appointed as Secretary of Health and Human Services. In January 2000, she was honored on the 23rd commemorative stamp in the United States Postal Service’s Black Heritage Series. Other Deltas that have been ambassadors are Ann Holloway and Bynthis Perry.

Question 38

Dorothy I. Height, Ph.D.,

Answer 38

10th National President (1947-1956), was appointed by President Carter to the Presidential Commission on a National Agenda for the 1980s. She served as president of the National Council of Negro Women for more than 40 years.

Question 39

Alexis Herman

Answer 39

was the Secretary of Labor and a Cabinet Member in the administration of President William Clinton.

Question 40

Darlene Clark Hine, Ph.D.,

Answer 40

noted author, built her career on researching, publishing and raising the bar of how the experience of African-American women should be recorded. She was the first African-American to become the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University.

Question 41

Shirley Jackson, Ph.D.,

Answer 41

is the 18th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to head a leading technological university, the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973), and the first African-American woman to become a commissioner of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Question 42

Elaine R. Jones .

Answer 42

is the first woman to serve as Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She is also the first African-American woman graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and the first African-American woman elected to the American Bar Association Board of Governors.

Question 43

Barbara Jordan

Answer 43

was the first African-American to serve in the U.S. Congress from the South since Reconstruction. She was the first Black woman to preside over a state senate and the first African-American to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.

Question 44

Jewel S. Lafontant

Answer 44

was the first American woman to be admitted into the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. She was also the first female Deputy Solicitor General of the U.S. during the Nixon Administration.

Question 45

Carrie P. Meek

Answer 45

served as Congresswoman for the 17th District of Florida for ten years. She was the first African-American elected to represent Florida in the United States House of Representatives since Reconstruction.

Question 46

Jane E. Smith, Ph.D.

Answer 46

served as the President and CEO of the National Council of Negro Women.

Question 47

Mary Church Terrell

Answer 47

was the first African-American chosen to represent the United States Congress of Women and to serve on the board of education of a major city.

Question 48

Stephanie Tubbs-Jones

Answer 48

was a Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives for the 11th District of Ohio.

Question 49

Barbara Watson

Answer 49

was the first African-American woman to serve as chief of a State Department bureau. She became Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs in 1968, served through 1974, and was re-appointed in 1977. Later that year, she became Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.